December 9th All Events |
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| December 9th, 2007 (December 09 2007) | Death | Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (born in 1931) | |
| December 9th, 2006 (December 09 2006) | Event | Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center. | |
| December 9th, 2005 (December 09 2005) | Death | Gyorgy Sandor, Hungarian pianist (born in 1912) | |
| December 9th, 2005 (December 09 2005) | Death | Robert Sheckley, American author (born in 1928) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| December 9th, 2004 (December 09 2004) | Death | David Brudnoy, American radio personality (born in 1940) | |
| December 9th, 2004 (December 09 2004) | Death | Lea De Mae, Czech actress (born in 1976) | |
| December 9th, 2003 (December 09 2003) | Event | A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more. | |
| December 9th, 2003 (December 09 2003) | Death | Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (born in 1928) | Paul Simon Quotes |
| December 9th, 2003 (December 09 2003) | Death | Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (born in 1926) | |
| December 9th, 2002 (December 09 2002) | Death | Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (born in 1966) | |
| December 9th, 2002 (December 09 2002) | Death | Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (born in 1944) | |
| December 9th, 2002 (December 09 2002) | Death | Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (born in 1942) | |
| December 9th, 2001 (December 09 2001) | Death | Michael Carver, British soldier (born in 1915) | |
| December 9th, 1998 (December 09 1998) | Death | Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (born in 1948) | |
| December 9th, 1998 (December 09 1998) | Death | Archie Moore, American boxer (born in 1913) | |
| December 9th, 1996 (December 09 1996) | Death | Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (born in 1956) | |
| December 9th, 1996 (December 09 1996) | Death | Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (born in 1913) | |
| December 9th, 1996 (December 09 1996) | Death | Alain Poher, French politician (born in 1909) | |
| December 9th, 1995 (December 09 1995) | Death | Toni Cade Bambara, American author (born in 1939) | |
| December 9th, 1995 (December 09 1995) | Death | Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (born in 1907) | |
| December 9th, 1994 (December 09 1994) | Death | Garnett Silk, Jamaican reggae singer (born in 1966) | |
| December 9th, 1993 (December 09 1993) | Death | Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (born in 1926) | |
| December 9th, 1992 (December 09 1992) | Death | Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (born in 1922) | |
| December 9th, 1990 (December 09 1990) | Event | Lech Walesa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland. | Lech Walesa Quotes |
| December 9th, 1990 (December 09 1990) | Birth | LaFee, German singer | |
| December 9th, 1988 (December 09 1988) | Event | The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened. | |
| December 9th, 1987 (December 09 1987) | Event | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. | |
| December 9th, 1984 (December 09 1984) | Death | Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (born in 1960) | |
| December 9th, 1983 (December 09 1983) | Birth | Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer | |
| December 9th, 1983 (December 09 1983) | Birth | Jermaine Beckford, English footballer | |
| December 9th, 1982 (December 09 1982) | Birth | Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist | |
| December 9th, 1982 (December 09 1982) | Birth | Vincent Accardi, American guitarist Brand New | |
| December 9th, 1982 (December 09 1982) | Death | Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (born in 1905) | |
| December 9th, 1981 (December 09 1981) | Birth | Mardy Fish, American tennis player | |
| December 9th, 1981 (December 09 1981) | Birth | Diya Mirza, Indian actress | |
| December 9th, 1981 (December 09 1981) | Death | Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (born in 1955) | |
| December 9th, 1980 (December 09 1980) | Birth | Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist | |
| December 9th, 1979 (December 09 1979) | Event | The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. | |
| December 9th, 1979 (December 09 1979) | Birth | Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer | |
| December 9th, 1979 (December 09 1979) | Birth | Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer | |
| December 9th, 1979 (December 09 1979) | Death | Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (born in 1895) | |
| December 9th, 1978 (December 09 1978) | Birth | Jesse Metcalfe, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1977 (December 09 1977) | Birth | Saskia Garel, Canadian actress | |
| December 9th, 1977 (December 09 1977) | Birth | Shayne Graham, American football player | |
| December 9th, 1977 (December 09 1977) | Birth | Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter | |
| December 9th, 1976 (December 09 1976) | Birth | Chris Booker, American baseball player | |
| December 9th, 1975 (December 09 1975) | Death | William A. Wellman, American movie director (born in 1896) | |
| December 9th, 1974 (December 09 1974) | Birth | Canibus, American rapper | |
| December 9th, 1974 (December 09 1974) | Birth | Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach | |
| December 9th, 1972 (December 09 1972) | Birth | Reiko Aylesworth, American actress | |
| December 9th, 1972 (December 09 1972) | Birth | Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day) | |
| December 9th, 1972 (December 09 1972) | Birth | Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player | |
| December 9th, 1972 (December 09 1972) | Death | Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (born in 1881) | |
| December 9th, 1971 (December 09 1971) | Birth | Petr Nedved, Czech ice hockey player | |
| December 9th, 1971 (December 09 1971) | Death | Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1904) | |
| December 9th, 1971 (December 09 1971) | Death | Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (born in 1874) | |
| December 9th, 1970 (December 09 1970) | Death | Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (born in 1905) | |
| December 9th, 1970 (December 09 1970) | Death | Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born in 1893) | |
| December 9th, 1969 (December 09 1969) | Birth | Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers) | |
| December 9th, 1969 (December 09 1969) | Birth | Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer | |
| December 9th, 1969 (December 09 1969) | Birth | Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor | |
| December 9th, 1968 (December 09 1968) | Event | NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco. | |
| December 9th, 1968 (December 09 1968) | Birth | Kurt Angle, American wrestler | |
| December 9th, 1968 (December 09 1968) | Birth | Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer) | |
| December 9th, 1968 (December 09 1968) | Birth | Dave Harold, English snooker player | |
| December 9th, 1967 (December 09 1967) | Birth | Joshua Bell, American violinist | |
| December 9th, 1967 (December 09 1967) | Birth | Jason Dozzell, English footballer | |
| December 9th, 1967 (December 09 1967) | Birth | Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer | |
| December 9th, 1967 (December 09 1967) | Death | Charles Leon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (born in 1898) | |
| December 9th, 1966 (December 09 1966) | Birth | Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician | Eric Gill Quotes |
| December 9th, 1966 (December 09 1966) | Birth | Toby Huss, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1965 (December 09 1965) | Birth | Joe Ausanio, American baseball player | |
| December 9th, 1965 (December 09 1965) | Birth | Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant | |
| December 9th, 1965 (December 09 1965) | Death | Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (born in 1884) | |
| December 9th, 1964 (December 09 1964) | Birth | Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein) | |
| December 9th, 1964 (December 09 1964) | Death | Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (born in 1887) | Edith Sitwell Quotes |
| December 9th, 1963 (December 09 1963) | Birth | Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer | |
| December 9th, 1963 (December 09 1963) | Birth | Masako, Crown Princess of Japan | |
| December 9th, 1962 (December 09 1962) | Birth | Felicity Huffman, American actress | |
| December 9th, 1961 (December 09 1961) | Event | The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. | Adolf Eichmann Quotes |
| December 9th, 1961 (December 09 1961) | Event | Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. | |
| December 9th, 1961 (December 09 1961) | Birth | David Anthony Higgins, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1961 (December 09 1961) | Birth | Joe Lando, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1960 (December 09 1960) | Birth | Terry Moran, American TV reporter | |
| December 9th, 1960 (December 09 1960) | Birth | Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player | |
| December 9th, 1960 (December 09 1960) | Birth | Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor | |
| December 9th, 1958 (December 09 1958) | Event | Red Scare: The John Birch Society was founded in the United States. | |
| December 9th, 1958 (December 09 1958) | Birth | Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents) | |
| December 9th, 1958 (December 09 1958) | Birth | Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House) | |
| December 9th, 1957 (December 09 1957) | Birth | Donny Osmond, American singer and actor | |
| December 9th, 1955 (December 09 1955) | Birth | Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician | |
| December 9th, 1955 (December 09 1955) | Death | Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (born in 1885) | |
| December 9th, 1954 (December 09 1954) | Birth | Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian | |
| December 9th, 1953 (December 09 1953) | Event | Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. | |
| December 9th, 1953 (December 09 1953) | Birth | World B. Free, American basketball player | |
| December 9th, 1953 (December 09 1953) | Birth | John Malkovich, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1952 (December 09 1952) | Birth | Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician | |
| December 9th, 1952 (December 09 1952) | Birth | Michael Dorn, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1950 (December 09 1950) | Event | Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. | |
| December 9th, 1950 (December 09 1950) | Birth | Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer | |
| December 9th, 1949 (December 09 1949) | Birth | Tom Kite, American golfer | |
| December 9th, 1949 (December 09 1949) | Birth | Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor | |
| December 9th, 1948 (December 09 1948) | Birth | Dennis Dunaway, American musician | |
| December 9th, 1948 (December 09 1948) | Birth | Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director | |
| December 9th, 1947 (December 09 1947) | Birth | Tom Daschle, American politician | |
| December 9th, 1947 (December 09 1947) | Birth | Jaak Joeruut, Soviet-born Estonian politician | |
| December 9th, 1946 (December 09 1946) | Event | The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" began with the "Doctors Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation. | |
| December 9th, 1946 (December 09 1946) | Birth | Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician | |
| December 9th, 1946 (December 09 1946) | Birth | Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor | |
| December 9th, 1945 (December 09 1945) | Birth | Matti Mantyla, Finnish actor | |
| December 9th, 1945 (December 09 1945) | Birth | Michael Nouri, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1944 (December 09 1944) | Birth | Neil Innes, English singer (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles) | |
| December 9th, 1944 (December 09 1944) | Birth | Ki Longfellow, American novelist | |
| December 9th, 1944 (December 09 1944) | Birth | Bob O Connor, American politician | |
| December 9th, 1943 (December 09 1943) | Birth | Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 9th, 1942 (December 09 1942) | Birth | Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (died in 1997) | |
| December 9th, 1942 (December 09 1942) | Birth | Dick Butkus, American football player | |
| December 9th, 1941 (December 09 1941) | Event | World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. | |
| December 9th, 1941 (December 09 1941) | Event | World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. | |
| December 9th, 1941 (December 09 1941) | Birth | Beau Bridges, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1941 (December 09 1941) | Birth | Dan Hicks, American musician | |
| December 9th, 1941 (December 09 1941) | Death | Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (born in 1865) | Philo Quotes |
| December 9th, 1940 (December 09 1940) | Event | World War II: Operation CompassBritish and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. | |
| December 9th, 1938 (December 09 1938) | Birth | David Houston, American country singer (died in 1993) | |
| December 9th, 1938 (December 09 1938) | Birth | Deacon Jones, American football player | |
| December 9th, 1937 (December 09 1937) | Event | Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of NanjingJapanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing. | |
| December 9th, 1937 (December 09 1937) | Birth | Darwin Joston, American actor (died in 1998) | |
| December 9th, 1937 (December 09 1937) | Death | Nils Gustaf Dalen, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1869) | |
| December 9th, 1935 (December 09 1935) | Event | Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder. | |
| December 9th, 1935 (December 09 1935) | Death | Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (born in 1886) | |
| December 9th, 1934 (December 09 1934) | Birth | Dame Judi Dench, English actress | |
| December 9th, 1934 (December 09 1934) | Birth | Junior Wells, American musician (died in 1998) | |
| December 9th, 1933 (December 09 1933) | Birth | Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (died in 2001) | |
| December 9th, 1933 (December 09 1933) | Birth | Monique Miller, French Canadian actress | |
| December 9th, 1931 (December 09 1931) | Event | The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic. | |
| December 9th, 1931 (December 09 1931) | Birth | William Reynolds, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1931 (December 09 1931) | Birth | Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor | |
| December 9th, 1930 (December 09 1930) | Birth | Buck Henry, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1930 (December 09 1930) | Death | Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (born in 1879) | |
| December 9th, 1929 (December 09 1929) | Birth | John Cassavetes, American actor and director (died in 1989) | |
| December 9th, 1929 (December 09 1929) | Birth | Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia | |
| December 9th, 1928 (December 09 1928) | Birth | Andre Milhoux, Belgian racing driver | |
| December 9th, 1928 (December 09 1928) | Birth | Dick Van Patten, American actor | |
| December 9th, 1927 (December 09 1927) | Birth | Pierre Henry, French composer | |
| December 9th, 1926 (December 09 1926) | Birth | Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1999) | |
| December 9th, 1926 (December 09 1926) | Birth | Jan Kresadlo, Czech writer (died in 1995) | |
| December 9th, 1925 (December 09 1925) | Birth | Dina Merrill, American actress | |
| December 9th, 1922 (December 09 1922) | Event | Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland. | |
| December 9th, 1922 (December 09 1922) | Birth | Redd Foxx, American comedian (died in 1991) | |
| December 9th, 1920 (December 09 1920) | Birth | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic | |
| December 9th, 1919 (December 09 1919) | Birth | William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate | |
| December 9th, 1918 (December 09 1918) | Birth | Jerome Beatty Jr., American author | |
| December 9th, 1917 (December 09 1917) | Event | In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem. | |
| December 9th, 1917 (December 09 1917) | Birth | James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (died in 1987) | |
| December 9th, 1917 (December 09 1917) | Birth | James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1986) | |
| December 9th, 1916 (December 09 1916) | Birth | Kirk Douglas, American actor | Kirk Douglas Quotes |
| December 9th, 1916 (December 09 1916) | Death | Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (born in 1867) | |
| December 9th, 1915 (December 09 1915) | Birth | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (died in 2006) | |
| December 9th, 1914 (December 09 1914) | Birth | Frances Reid, American actress | |
| December 9th, 1912 (December 09 1912) | Birth | Tip O Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died in 1994) | |
| December 9th, 1911 (December 09 1911) | Birth | Broderick Crawford, American actor (died in 1986) | |
| December 9th, 1911 (December 09 1911) | Birth | Ryuzo Sejima, Japanese educator (died in 2007) | |
| December 9th, 1909 (December 09 1909) | Birth | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (died in 2000) | |
| December 9th, 1906 (December 09 1906) | Birth | Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (died in 1992) | Grace Hopper Quotes |
| December 9th, 1905 (December 09 1905) | Event | In France, the law separating church and state is passed. | |
| December 9th, 1905 (December 09 1905) | Birth | Dalton Trumbo, American writer (died in 1976) | Dalton Trumbo Quotes |
| December 9th, 1904 (December 09 1904) | Birth | Robert Livingston, American actor (died in 1988) | |
| December 9th, 1902 (December 09 1902) | Birth | Margaret Hamilton, American actress (died in 1985) | |
| December 9th, 1901 (December 09 1901) | Birth | Carol Dempster, American actress (died in 1991) | |
| December 9th, 1901 (December 09 1901) | Birth | Odon von Horvath, Hungarian-born writer (died in 1938) | |
| December 9th, 1901 (December 09 1901) | Birth | Jean Mermoz, French pilot (died in 1936) | |
| December 9th, 1900 (December 09 1900) | Birth | Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (died in 1977) | |
| December 9th, 1899 (December 09 1899) | Birth | Jean de Brunhoff, French author (died in 1937) | |
| December 9th, 1898 (December 09 1898) | Birth | Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (died in 1979) | |
| December 9th, 1897 (December 09 1897) | Event | Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris. | |
| December 9th, 1897 (December 09 1897) | Birth | Hermione Gingold, English actress (died in 1987) | Hermione Gingold Quotes |
| December 9th, 1895 (December 09 1895) | Birth | Conchita Supervia, Spanish opera singer (died in 1936) | |
| December 9th, 1894 (December 09 1894) | Death | Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (born in 1821) | |
| December 9th, 1891 (December 09 1891) | Birth | Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarusian poet (died in 1917) | |
| December 9th, 1889 (December 09 1889) | Birth | Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (died in 1966) | |
| December 9th, 1888 (December 09 1888) | Event | Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department. | |
| December 9th, 1887 (December 09 1887) | Birth | Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (died in 1958) | Tim Moore Quotes |
| December 9th, 1887 (December 09 1887) | Death | Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader | |
| December 9th, 1886 (December 09 1886) | Birth | Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (died in 1956) | |
| December 9th, 1883 (December 09 1883) | Birth | Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (died in 1950) | |
| December 9th, 1882 (December 09 1882) | Birth | Joaquin Turina, Spanish composer (died in 1949) | |
| December 9th, 1876 (December 09 1876) | Birth | Berton Churchill, American actor (died in 1940) | |
| December 9th, 1875 (December 09 1875) | Event | Massachusetts Rifle Association "America s Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded. | |
| December 9th, 1872 (December 09 1872) | Event | In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state. | |
| December 9th, 1871 (December 09 1871) | Birth | Joe Kelley, American baseball player (died in 1943) | |
| December 9th, 1868 (December 09 1868) | Birth | Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1934) | |
| December 9th, 1861 (December 09 1861) | Event | American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress. | |
| December 9th, 1858 (December 09 1858) | Death | Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (born in 1804) | |
| December 9th, 1856 (December 09 1856) | Event | The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces. | |
| December 9th, 1854 (December 09 1854) | Death | Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (born in 1799) | |
| December 9th, 1851 (December 09 1851) | Event | The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec. | |
| December 9th, 1850 (December 09 1850) | Birth | Emma Abbott, American soprano (died in 1891) | |
| December 9th, 1847 (December 09 1847) | Birth | George Grossmith, English actor (died in 1912) | George Grossmith Quotes |
| December 9th, 1842 (December 09 1842) | Birth | Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (died in 1921) | |
| December 9th, 1837 (December 09 1837) | Birth | Emile Waldteufel, French composer (died in 1915) | |
| December 9th, 1835 (December 09 1835) | Event | The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas. | |
| December 9th, 1830 (December 09 1830) | Death | Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (born in 1757) | |
| December 9th, 1824 (December 09 1824) | Event | Patriot forces led by General Antonio Jose de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence. | |
| December 9th, 1806 (December 09 1806) | Birth | Jean-Olivier Chenier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (died in 1838) | |
| December 9th, 1798 (December 09 1798) | Death | Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (born in 1729) | |
| December 9th, 1793 (December 09 1793) | Event | New York City s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. | |
| December 9th, 1793 (December 09 1793) | Death | Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (born in 1749) | |
| December 9th, 1787 (December 09 1787) | Birth | John Dobson, English architect (died in 1865) | |
| December 9th, 1751 (December 09 1751) | Birth | Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (died in 1819) | |
| December 9th, 1748 (December 09 1748) | Birth | Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (died in 1822) | |
| December 9th, 1718 (December 09 1718) | Death | Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (born in 1650) | |
| December 9th, 1706 (December 09 1706) | Death | King Peter II of Portugal (born in 1648) | |
| December 9th, 1692 (December 09 1692) | Death | William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist | |
| December 9th, 1674 (December 09 1674) | Death | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (born in 1609) | |
| December 9th, 1669 (December 09 1669) | Death | Pope Clement IX (born in 1600) | |
| December 9th, 1667 (December 09 1667) | Birth | William Whiston, English mathematician (died in 1752) | |
| December 9th, 1652 (December 09 1652) | Birth | Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (died in 1723) | |
| December 9th, 1641 (December 09 1641) | Death | Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (born in 1599) | |
| December 9th, 1636 (December 09 1636) | Death | Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (born in 1566) | |
| December 9th, 1625 (December 09 1625) | Death | Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (born in 1547) | |
| December 9th, 1610 (December 09 1610) | Birth | Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (died in 1680) | |
| December 9th, 1608 (December 09 1608) | Birth | John Milton, English poet (died in 1674) | John Milton Quotes |
| December 9th, 1603 (December 09 1603) | Death | William Watson, English conspirator (born in 1559) | William Watson Quotes |
| December 9th, 1594 (December 09 1594) | Birth | Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (died in 1632) | |
| December 9th, 1579 (December 09 1579) | Birth | Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (died in 1639) | |
| December 9th, 1571 (December 09 1571) | Birth | Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (died in 1635) | |
| December 9th, 1565 (December 09 1565) | Death | Pope Pius IV (born in 1499) | |
| December 9th, 1561 (December 09 1561) | Birth | Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (died in 1629) | |
| December 9th, 1544 (December 09 1544) | Death | Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (born in 1491) | |
| December 9th, 1508 (December 09 1508) | Birth | Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died in 1555) | |
| December 9th, 1447 (December 09 1447) | Birth | Chenghua, Emperor of China (died in 1487) | |
| December 9th, 1437 (December 09 1437) | Death | Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1368) | |
| December 9th, 1425 (December 09 1425) | Event | The Catholic University of Leuven is founded. | |
| December 9th, 1165 (December 09 1165) | Death | King Malcolm IV of Scotland | |
| December 9th, 0536 (December 09 0536) | Event | Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire. | |
