January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years).
- 1554 - Gregory XV, Pope (+ 1623)
- 1574 - Christoph Buel[?], composer
- 1620 - Johann Weichmann[?], composer
- 1695 - John E Loovens[?], lawyer
- 1699 - Robert J Pothier[?], French lawyer[?]
- 1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England
- 1748 - Stefan Paluselli[?], composer
- 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom[?], Swedish poet
- 1811 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer
- 1815 - William Jackson[?], composer
- 1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky[?], composer
- 1829 - Thomas William Robertson[?], English playwright
- 1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit[?], German explorer
- 1839 - John Knowles Paine[?], composer
- 1843 - Christiaan A Ulder[?], composer
- 1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani[?], composer
- 1851 - Luis Coloma[?], Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian
- 1856 - Anton Askerc[?], priest, poet
- 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese[?], poet
- 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac[?], composer
- 1857 - Henry B. Fuller[?], writer
- 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt[?], women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters[?]
- 1859 - Frederik Pijper[?], Dutch vicar, church historian
- 1864 - Vladimir Andreevich Steklov, Russian mathematician
- 1866 - Albert Baertsoen[?], Flemish painter, etcher
- 1867 - Jacques Urlus[?], Dutch opera singer
- 1870 - Joseph B Strauss[?], civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge
- 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik[?], Hebrew poet, translator
- 1875 - Gertrude Whitney[?], sculptor (+ 1942)
- 1876 - Hans Bethge[?], writer
- 1879 - John Broadus Watson[?], behaviorist psychologist
- 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet, critic
- 1881 - Giovanni Papini[?], Italian, writer
- 1890 - Karel Capek, Czech writer (+ 1938)
- 1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, writer, satirist, social critic (+ 1935)
- 1891 - August Gailit[?], Estonian, writer
- 1894 - Henryk Stazewski[?], Polish abstract painter, graphic artist
- 1897 - Luis Gianneo[?], composer
- 1898 - Gracie Fields[?], English music hall/vaudeville performer (+ 1979)
- 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin[?], composer
- 1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner[?], composer
- 1901 - Chic Young[?], cartoonist (Blondie[?]) (+ 1973)
- 1902 - Rudolph Bing[?], opera manager (New York Metropolitan Opera)
- 1904 - George Balanchine, dancer, choreographer, ballet producer (+ 1983) (O.S.)
- 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, author (+ 1986)
- 1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling[?], professor of occupational health
- 1911 - Stafford William Somerfield[?], British newspaper editor
- 1912 - Ralph Tubbs[?], architect
- 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (+ 1994)
- 1913 - Lavad 'Dr Hepcat' Durst[?], musician
- 1913 - Peter John Norton[?], diplomat, artist
- 1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke[?], jazz drummer, composer
- 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque[?] actress
- 1915 - Fernando Lamas[?], actor (+ 1982)
- 1915 - Les Paul, guitarist, inventor
- 1916 - Vic Mizzy[?], orchestra leader
- 1917 - Herbert Lom[?], actor
- 1921 - Seymour Barab[?], composer
- 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American novelist
- 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré[?], President of Guinea
- 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana[?], biochemist (1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1924 - Julián B Coco[?], guitarist, bassist
- 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (+ 1989)
- 1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah[?], novelist
- 1928 - Judith Krantz[?], author
- 1928 - Domenico Modugno[?], musician
- 1929 - Heiner Muller[?], dramatist (+ 1995)
- 1931 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author
- 1931 - Geoffrey Wragg[?], British reorganizer
- 1933 - Sonia Garmers[?], author
- 1934 - Bart Starr[?], American football star
- 1935 - Bob Denver, actor
- 1935 - Dick Enberg[?], sportscaster
- 1935 - Kenneth 'Buddy' Scott[?], blues guitarist, singer
- 1936 - Peter Fletcher[?], music teacher
- 1937 - K Schlesinger[?], writer
- 1937 - Judith Krantz[?], author
- 1938 - Aad Kosto[?], theologian, actor, assistant Secretary of Justice of the Netherlands
- 1940 - Jimmy Boyd[?], actor, singer
- 1940 - Barbara Buczek, composer
- 1941 - Joan Baez, folk music singer, activist
- 1941 - Susannah York, actress
- 1943 - Dick Yount[?], rock musician
- 1943 - Kenneth Kelley[?], American singer
- 1943 - Rob Hoeke[?], pianist, singer
- 1944 - Scott Engel[?], singer
- 1944 - Jimmy Page, rock musician, guitarist ("Led Zeppelin")
- 1945 - Frank J. Biondi Jr.[?], president of HBO
- 1945 - Harun Farocki[?], actor, director
- 1946 - Leo Gullotta[?], actor
- 1948 - Paul King[?], musician (Blue Oyster Cult)
- 1950 - David Johansen[?] (Buster Poindexter[?]),singer
- 1950 - Rio Reiser, singer
- 1951 - Crystal Gayle[?], country music singer
- 1951 - Rosalyn Kind[?], , singer
- 1952 - Eveline L Herfkens[?], Dutch MP (PvdA)
- 1954 - Lance Hoppens[?], musician
- 1956 - David Smith[?], cricket player
- 1962 - Phil Lewis[?], musician
- 1965 - Carin Garbarra[?], football player
- 1965 - Cindy Brooks[?], rower
- 1965 - Joely Richardson[?], actress
- 1967 - Dave Matthews, singer, musician
- 1968 - Jimmy Adams[?], cricket player
- 1974 - Craig Wishart[?], cricketer
- 1978 - AJ McLean[?], singer ("Backstreet Boys")
- 2002 - Morgan Kay Beamer[?], daughter of Todd Beamer, who died on United Airlines flight 93
- 1283 - Wu Tian Xiang[?] Chinese patriot, executed in Beijing.
- 1324 - Marco Polo, explorer
- 1499 - Johan Cicero[?], elector of Brandenburg
- 1677 - Aernout van der Neer[?], cartoonist, landscape painter
- 1679 - Werner Fabricius[?], composer
- 1798 - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea[?], Spanish officer
- 1828 - Pieter Hoen[?], Dutch journalist, patriot
- 1843 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer
- 1849 - Jan Kops[?], agriculturist, vicar
- 1853 - Juan N Gallego[?], Spanish poet, interpreter
- 1854 - Filippo Traetta[?], composer
- 1863 - Ferdinand Huber[?], composer
- 1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France
- 1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
- 1879 - Don Joaquin BF Espartero[?], Field Marshal, viceroy of Navarre
- 1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer[?], composer
- 1893 - Mohara[?], slave trader
- 1902 - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns[?], lawyer, Interior Minister of Belgium
- 1904 - Alfred Richard[?], cricketer
- 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden[?], Yiddish stage performer
- 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, writer
- 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones[?], composer
- 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, writer
- 1927 - Houston S Chamberlain[?], race theorist
- 1929 - Heiner Müller[?], writer
- 1930 - Edward W Buck[?], editor (Ladies Home Journal[?])
- 1931 - Claude Anet[?], French writer
- 1936 - John Gilbert, actor
- 1939 - Johann Strauss III[?], conductor
- 1941 - Ko Boezeman[?], Dutch resistance fighter
- 1943 - Robin Collingwood[?], philosopher
- 1946 - Countee Cullen[?], poet
- 1947 - Karl Mannheim, sociologist
- 1947 - Lambertus Zijl[?], sculptor
- 1949 - Amilcare Zanella[?], composer
- 1953 - Hans Aanrud[?], Norwegian author (Storken)
- 1957 - Mary Carr Moore[?], composer
- 1958 - Paul Fechter[?], German writer, historian
- 1959 - Paul Malengreau[?], composer
- 1962 - LeRoy B Shield[?], pianist, composer
- 1966 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan[?], composer
- 1968 - Louis-François-Marie Aubert[?], composer
- 1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek[?], composer
- 1972 - Ted Shawn[?], dancer
- 1975 - John Slater[?], actor
- 1975 - Pierre Fresnay[?], actor
- 1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky[?], composer
- 1978 - Eddie Gilbert[?], cricketer
- 1979 - Avery Claflin[?], composer
- 1979 - Sara Carter, singer, guitarist
- 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki[?], composer
- 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte[?], director
- 1985 - Don Brennan[?], cricketer
- 1992 - Steve Brodie[?], actor
- 1992 - William JF Naughton[?], playwright
- 1994 - Silas Hogan[?], blues singer, guitarist,
- 1995 - Peter Cook, actor. satirist, writer, comedian
- 1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos
- 1996 - Mary Nadia Wadia[?], actress
- 1996 - Kurt Schmucker[?], Minister of Economy of Germany
- 1996 - Michael Lynn Synar[?], politician
- 1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski[?], Prime Minister of Poland[?]
- 1997 - Jesse White[?], actor
- 1997 - Junaidu ibn Buhari[?], scholar
- 1998 - Kenichi Fukui[?], Nobel Prize for Chemistry[?], (1981[?])
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
January 8 - January 10 - December 9 - February 9 - Historical anniversaries
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