December 9 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on December 9 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 18 Azar 1405.

Occasions on this day in 2026

international
International Anti-Corruption Day
countries
Day of Heroes of the Fatherland (Russia)

This day in the calendar

Famous people born on December 9

Events (54)

536 (1490 years ago) Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
730 (1296 years ago) Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
1432 (594 years ago) The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1531 (495 years ago) The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1636 (390 years ago) The Qing dynasty of China, led by Emperor Hong Taiji, invades Joseon.
1775 (251 years ago) American Revolutionary War: British troops and Loyalists, misinformed about Patriot militia strength, lose the Battle of Great Bridge, ending British rule in Virginia.
1822 (204 years ago) French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.
1824 (202 years ago) Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
1835 (191 years ago) Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio following the Siege of Béxar.
1851 (175 years ago) The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1856 (170 years ago) The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 (165 years ago) American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by Congress.
1868 (158 years ago) The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1872 (154 years ago) In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American governor of a U.S. state following the impeachment of Henry C. Warmoth.
1893 (133 years ago) National Assembly bombing by Auguste Vaillant during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894).
1905 (121 years ago) In France, a law separating church and state is passed.
1911 (115 years ago) A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.
1917 (109 years ago) World War I: The Kingdom of Romania signs the Armistice of Focșani with the Central Powers.
1922 (104 years ago) Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1931 (95 years ago) The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 (91 years ago) Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and are subsequently dispersed by government authorities.
1935 (91 years ago) Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1937 (89 years ago) Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Yasuhiko Asaka launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanking.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.
1946 (80 years ago) The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
1946 (80 years ago) The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
1948 (78 years ago) The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1950 (76 years ago) Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 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.
1953 (73 years ago) Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1956 (70 years ago) Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1956 (70 years ago) An Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes near Anadyr, killing all 12 people on board.
1960 (66 years ago) The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1961 (65 years ago) Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1965 (61 years ago) Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
1968 (58 years ago) Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1969 (57 years ago) U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
1971 (55 years ago) Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1973 (53 years ago) British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
1979 (47 years ago) The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
1987 (39 years ago) Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1992 (34 years ago) American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
1996 (30 years ago) Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.
2003 (23 years ago) A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 (20 years ago) Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-116 carrying the P5 truss segment of the International Space Station.
2008 (18 years ago) Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
2012 (14 years ago) A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people including singer Jenni Rivera.
2013 (13 years ago) At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
2016 (10 years ago) President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
2016 (10 years ago) At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
2017 (9 years ago) The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2019 (7 years ago) A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
2021 (5 years ago) Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.

Births (265)

1392 (634 years ago) Peter, Duke of Coimbra (died 1449)
1447 (579 years ago) Chenghua Emperor of China,
1482 (544 years ago) Frederick II, Elector Palatine (died 1556)
1493 (533 years ago) Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (died 1566)
1508 (518 years ago) Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555)
1561 (465 years ago) Edwin Sandys, English lawyer and politician (died 1629)
1571 (455 years ago) Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (died 1635)
1579 (447 years ago) Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (died 1639)
1594 (432 years ago) Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden,
1608 (418 years ago) John Milton, English poet and philosopher (died 1674)
1610 (416 years ago) Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor (died 1680)
1617 (409 years ago) Richard Lovelace, English poet (died 1657)
1652 (374 years ago) Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (died 1723)
1667 (359 years ago) William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (died 1752)
1717 (309 years ago) Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and historian (died 1768)
1721 (305 years ago) Peter Pelham, English-American organist and composer (died 1805)
1728 (298 years ago) Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (died 1804)
1742 (284 years ago) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist (died 1786)
1745 (281 years ago) Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer (died 1818)
1748 (278 years ago) Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (died 1822)
1752 (274 years ago) Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (died 1813)
1768 (258 years ago) Joseph Desha, American politician (died 1842)
1779 (247 years ago) Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor (died 1853)
1787 (239 years ago) John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (died 1865)
1806 (220 years ago) Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (died 1838)
1813 (213 years ago) Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (died 1885)
1837 (189 years ago) Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1915)
1842 (184 years ago) Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher (died 1921)
1845 (181 years ago) Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (died 1908)
1850 (176 years ago) Emma Abbott, American soprano and actress (died 1891)
1861 (165 years ago) Hélène Smith, French psychic and occultist (died 1929)
1867 (159 years ago) Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek journalist and author (died 1951)
1868 (158 years ago) Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
1870 (156 years ago) Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician and missionary (died 1960)
1870 (156 years ago) Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (died 1932)
1871 (155 years ago) Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (died 1943)
1873 (153 years ago) George Blewett, Canadian philosopher, author, and academic (died 1912)
1875 (151 years ago) Harry Miller, American engineer (died 1943)
1876 (150 years ago) Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1940)
1882 (144 years ago) Elmer Booth, American actor (died 1915)
1882 (144 years ago) Joaquín Turina, Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator (died 1949)
1883 (143 years ago) Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic (died 1950)
1883 (143 years ago) Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1955)
1883 (143 years ago) Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert, developed Pilates (died 1967)
1886 (140 years ago) Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (died 1956)
1887 (139 years ago) Tim Moore, American actor (died 1958)
1889 (137 years ago) Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner (died 1966)
1890 (136 years ago) Laura Salverson, Canadian author (died 1970)
1891 (135 years ago) Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (died 1917)
1892 (134 years ago) André Randall, French actor (died 1974)
1895 (131 years ago) Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish activist, journalist and politician (died 1989)
1895 (131 years ago) Conchita Supervía, Spanish soprano and actress (died 1936)
1897 (129 years ago) Hermione Gingold, English actress and singer (died 1987)
1898 (128 years ago) Irene Greenwood, Australian radio broadcaster, feminist and peace activist (died 1992)
1898 (128 years ago) Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (died 1979)
1899 (127 years ago) Jean de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (died 1937)
1900 (126 years ago) Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (died 1976)
1900 (126 years ago) Albert Weisbord, American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle (died 1977)
1901 (125 years ago) Jean Mermoz, French pilot and politician (died 1936)
1901 (125 years ago) Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-German author and playwright (died 1938)
1902 (124 years ago) Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (died 1985)
1904 (122 years ago) Robert Livingston, American actor and singer (died 1988)
1905 (121 years ago) Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee (died 1976)
1906 (120 years ago) Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (died 1992)
1906 (120 years ago) Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist (died 1983)
1909 (117 years ago) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (died 2000)
1910 (116 years ago) Vere Bird, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (died 1999)
1911 (115 years ago) Broderick Crawford, American actor (died 1986)
1911 (115 years ago) Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman (died 2007)
1912 (114 years ago) Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1994)
1912 (114 years ago) Jim Turnesa, American golfer (died 1971)
1914 (112 years ago) Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (died 1996)
1914 (112 years ago) Frances Reid, American actress (died 2010)
1914 (112 years ago) Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator (died 2009)
1915 (111 years ago) Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (died 2000)
1915 (111 years ago) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress (died 2006)
1916 (110 years ago) Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author (died 2002)
1916 (110 years ago) Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2020)
1916 (110 years ago) Colin McCool, Australian cricketer (died 1986)
1917 (109 years ago) James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent (died 1987)
1917 (109 years ago) James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
1919 (107 years ago) V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter (died 2013)
1919 (107 years ago) William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
1920 (106 years ago) Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy (died 2016)
1920 (106 years ago) Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (died 2007)
1922 (104 years ago) Redd Foxx, American actor (died 1991)
1925 (101 years ago) Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
1926 (100 years ago) Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
1926 (100 years ago) Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (died 1995)
1926 (100 years ago) David Nathan, British journalist (died 2001)
1926 (100 years ago) Lorenzo Wright, American sprinter and coach (died 1972)
1927 (99 years ago) Pierre Henry, French composer (died 2017)
1928 (98 years ago) Joan Blos, American author and educator (died 2017)
1928 (98 years ago) André Milhoux, Belgian race car driver
1928 (98 years ago) Dick Van Patten, American actor (died 2015)
1929 (97 years ago) John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1989)
1929 (97 years ago) Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (died 2019)
1930 (96 years ago) Buck Henry, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2020)
1930 (96 years ago) Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (died 2016)
1931 (95 years ago) Cliff Hagan, American basketball player-coach
1931 (95 years ago) William Reynolds, American actor (died 2022)
1931 (95 years ago) Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)
1932 (94 years ago) Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and academic (died 2013)
1932 (94 years ago) Bill Hartack, American jockey (died 2007)
1932 (94 years ago) Billy Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright (died 2024)
1933 (93 years ago) Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American author and illustrator (died 2025)
1933 (93 years ago) Milt Campbell, American decathlete and football player (died 2012)
1933 (93 years ago) Morton Downey Jr., American actor and talk show host (died 2001)
1933 (93 years ago) Orville Moody, American golfer (died 2008)
1934 (92 years ago) Judi Dench, English actress
1934 (92 years ago) Alan Ridout, English composer and teacher (died 1996)
1934 (92 years ago) Junior Wells, American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (died 1998)
1935 (91 years ago) David Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)
1938 (88 years ago) Deacon Jones, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2013)
1938 (88 years ago) Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (died 2014)
1940 (86 years ago) Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (died 2005)
1941 (85 years ago) Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (died 2013)
1941 (85 years ago) Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
1941 (85 years ago) Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
1942 (84 years ago) Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (died 1997)
1942 (84 years ago) Dick Butkus, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2023)
1942 (84 years ago) Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)
1942 (84 years ago) Fred Jones, Australian rugby league player (died 2021)
1942 (84 years ago) Joe McGinniss, American journalist and author (died 2014)
1942 (84 years ago) William Turnage, American conservationist (died 2017)
1943 (83 years ago) Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2008)
1943 (83 years ago) Joanna Trollope, English author, playwright, and director (died 2025)
1943 (83 years ago) Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and music producer
1944 (82 years ago) Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter (died 2019)
1944 (82 years ago) Ki Longfellow, American author, playwright, and producer (died 2022)
1944 (82 years ago) Bob O'Connor, American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (died 2006)
1945 (81 years ago) Michael Nouri, American actor
1946 (80 years ago) David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academic
1946 (80 years ago) Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and songwriter
1946 (80 years ago) Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician
1946 (80 years ago) Nicholas Reade, English bishop
1947 (79 years ago) Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician
1947 (79 years ago) Jaak Jõerüüt, Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defense
1947 (79 years ago) Allan Jones, English cricketer and umpire
1948 (78 years ago) Marleen Gorris, Dutch director and screenwriter
1948 (78 years ago) Jonathan Sumption, English historian, author, and judge
1949 (77 years ago) Tom Kite, American golfer and architect
1950 (76 years ago) Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 (74 years ago) Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
1952 (74 years ago) Michael Dorn, American actor and voice artist
1953 (73 years ago) Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer and educator
1953 (73 years ago) World B. Free, American basketball player
1953 (73 years ago) John Malkovich, American actor and producer
1954 (72 years ago) Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1954 (72 years ago) Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager
1955 (71 years ago) Otis Birdsong, American basketball player and radio host
1955 (71 years ago) Chamras Saewataporn, Thai singer-songwriter
1956 (70 years ago) Sylvia, American country singer-songwriter
1956 (70 years ago) Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French journalist and author
1957 (69 years ago) Peter O'Mara, Australian guitarist and composer
1957 (69 years ago) Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1957 (69 years ago) Steve Taylor, American singer-songwriter and producer
1959 (67 years ago) Susan Bullock, English soprano
1959 (67 years ago) Mario Cantone, American comedian, actor, and writer
1960 (66 years ago) Stefen Fangmeier, American visual effects designer and director
1960 (66 years ago) Caroline Lucas, English activist and politician
1960 (66 years ago) Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician
1960 (66 years ago) Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player and manager
1961 (65 years ago) David Anthony Higgins, American actor and screenwriter
1961 (65 years ago) Joe Lando, American actor
1962 (64 years ago) Felicity Huffman, American actress and producer
1962 (64 years ago) Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) ceramic sculptor
1963 (63 years ago) Dave Hilton Jr., Canadian boxer
1963 (63 years ago) Empress Masako, Japanese consort of Emperor Naruhito
1964 (62 years ago) Michael Foster, American drummer
1964 (62 years ago) Ross Harrington, Australian rugby league player
1964 (62 years ago) Hape Kerkeling, German actor and singer
1964 (62 years ago) Johannes B. Kerner, German journalist and sportscaster
1964 (62 years ago) Les Kiss, Australian rugby league player
1964 (62 years ago) Paul Landers, German guitarist
1965 (61 years ago) Joe Ausanio, American baseball player and coach
1966 (60 years ago) Kirsten Gillibrand, American lawyer and politician
1966 (60 years ago) Dave Harold, English snooker player
1966 (60 years ago) Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs
1966 (60 years ago) Martin Taylor, English footballer and coach
1967 (59 years ago) Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor
1967 (59 years ago) Jason Dozzell, English footballer and manager
1968 (58 years ago) Kurt Angle, American freestyle and professional wrestler
1968 (58 years ago) Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 (58 years ago) Brent Price, American basketball player
1969 (57 years ago) Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 (57 years ago) Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter
1969 (57 years ago) Lori Greiner, American businesswoman and television personality
1969 (57 years ago) Annick Lambrecht, Belgian politician
1969 (57 years ago) Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 (57 years ago) Raphaël Rouquier, French mathematician and academic
1969 (57 years ago) Allison Smith, American actress
1970 (56 years ago) Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter and producer
1970 (56 years ago) Lance Krall, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 (55 years ago) Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer, and producer
1971 (55 years ago) Aleksandra Gajewska, Polish theatre director, actress, and politician
1971 (55 years ago) Nick Hysong, American pole vaulter and coach
1971 (55 years ago) Petr Nedvěd, Czech-Canadian ice hockey player
1972 (54 years ago) Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
1972 (54 years ago) Tré Cool, German-American drummer and songwriter
1972 (54 years ago) Michael Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 (54 years ago) Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player and sportscaster
1972 (54 years ago) Saima Wazed, Bangladeshi psychologist
1973 (53 years ago) Stacey Abrams, American politician and activist
1973 (53 years ago) Fabio Artico, Italian footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Vénuste Niyongabo, Burundian runner
1973 (53 years ago) Bárbara Padilla, Mexican-American soprano
1974 (52 years ago) David Akers, American football player
1974 (52 years ago) Canibus, Jamaican-American rapper
1974 (52 years ago) Aloísio da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer
1974 (52 years ago) Wendy Dillinger, American soccer player, coach, and manager
1974 (52 years ago) Fiona MacDonald, Scottish curler
1976 (50 years ago) Mona Hanna-Attisha, American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate
1977 (49 years ago) Shayne Graham, American football player
1977 (49 years ago) Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1978 (48 years ago) Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player
1978 (48 years ago) Jesse Metcalfe, American actor and musician
1979 (47 years ago) Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter
1979 (47 years ago) Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
1979 (47 years ago) Aiko Uemura, Japanese skier
1980 (46 years ago) Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian, and musician
1980 (46 years ago) Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
1980 (46 years ago) Mark Riddell, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1981 (45 years ago) Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1982 (44 years ago) Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
1982 (44 years ago) Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner
1982 (44 years ago) Ryan Grant, American football player
1982 (44 years ago) Jim Slater, American ice hockey player
1982 (44 years ago) Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
1983 (43 years ago) Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer
1983 (43 years ago) Neslihan Demir Darnel, Turkish volleyball player
1983 (43 years ago) Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1983 (43 years ago) Jolene Purdy, American actress
1984 (42 years ago) Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Leon Hall, American football player
1985 (41 years ago) Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
1986 (40 years ago) Aron Baynes, Australian basketball player
1987 (39 years ago) Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Gerald Henderson Jr., American basketball player
1987 (39 years ago) Mat Latos, American baseball player
1987 (39 years ago) Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
1987 (39 years ago) Jeff Petry, American ice hockey player
1987 (39 years ago) Joshua Sasse, English actor
1988 (38 years ago) Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
1989 (37 years ago) Eric Bledsoe, American basketball player
1990 (36 years ago) Ashleigh Brewer, Australian actress
1990 (36 years ago) SungWon Cho, American YouTuber and actor
1990 (36 years ago) Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
1991 (35 years ago) Langston Galloway, American basketball player
1991 (35 years ago) Choi Min-ho, South Korean singer and actor
1993 (33 years ago) Cem Ince, German politician
1993 (33 years ago) Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder
1993 (33 years ago) Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
1994 (32 years ago) Ryan Lomberg, Canadian ice hockey player
1995 (31 years ago) Simone Fontecchio, Italian basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
1995 (31 years ago) Kelly Oubre Jr., American basketball player
1996 (30 years ago) Mackenzie Blackwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1996 (30 years ago) Kyle Connor, American ice hockey player
1996 (30 years ago) MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast
1996 (30 years ago) AleXa, American singer based in South Korea
1997 (29 years ago) Harvey Barnes, English footballer
2000 (26 years ago) Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater
2003 (23 years ago) Yuna, South Korean rapper, singer and dancer
2005 (21 years ago) Ni-Ki, Japanese singer

Deaths (112)

638 (1388 years ago) Sergius I of Constantinople,
730 (1296 years ago) Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, Arab general
748 (1278 years ago) Nasr ibn Sayyar, Umayyad general and politician (born 663)
933 (1093 years ago) Li Congrong, prince of Later Tang
1117 (909 years ago) Gertrude of Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen
1165 (861 years ago) Malcolm IV of Scotland,
1242 (784 years ago) Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham
1268 (758 years ago) Vaišvilkas, Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuania
1299 (727 years ago) Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
1437 (589 years ago) Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1368)
1544 (482 years ago) Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (born 1491)
1565 (461 years ago) Pope Pius IV,
1603 (423 years ago) William Watson, English priest (born 1559)
1625 (401 years ago) Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (born 1547)
1636 (390 years ago) Fabian Birkowski, Polish preacher and author (born 1566)
1641 (385 years ago) Anthony van Dyck, Belgian-English painter and illustrator (born 1599)
1669 (357 years ago) Pope Clement IX,
1674 (352 years ago) Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1609)
1706 (320 years ago) Peter II of Portugal,
1718 (308 years ago) Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk and cartographer (born 1650)
1761 (265 years ago) Tarabai, Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (born 1675)
1793 (233 years ago) Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (born 1749)
1798 (228 years ago) Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (born 1729)
1830 (196 years ago) Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (born 1757)
1851 (175 years ago) William Thornhill, English army officer (born 1768)
1854 (172 years ago) Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (born 1799)
1858 (168 years ago) Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (born 1804)
1887 (139 years ago) Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
1906 (120 years ago) Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (born 1849)
1907 (119 years ago) Eva Nansen, Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer and pioneer on women's skiing (born 1858)
1916 (110 years ago) Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (born 1867)
1924 (102 years ago) Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (born 1854)
1930 (96 years ago) Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (born 1879)
1932 (94 years ago) Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (born 1865)
1932 (94 years ago) Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (born 1880)
1935 (91 years ago) Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (born 1886)
1937 (89 years ago) Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (born 1882)
1937 (89 years ago) Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
1941 (85 years ago) Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1865)
1943 (83 years ago) Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (born 1870)
1944 (82 years ago) Laird Cregar, American actor (born 1913)
1945 (81 years ago) Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (born 1864)
1957 (69 years ago) Ali İhsan Sâbis, Turkish general (born 1882)
1963 (63 years ago) Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (born 1903)
1963 (63 years ago) Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (born 1905)
1964 (62 years ago) Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (born 1887)
1965 (61 years ago) Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (born 1884)
1967 (59 years ago) Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgish lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (born 1898)
1968 (58 years ago) Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (born 1883)
1970 (56 years ago) Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (born 1905)
1970 (56 years ago) Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1893)
1971 (55 years ago) Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
1971 (55 years ago) Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (born 1874)
1971 (55 years ago) Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams, Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (born 1886)
1972 (54 years ago) Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (born 1881)
1975 (51 years ago) William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1896)
1979 (47 years ago) Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (born 1895)
1982 (44 years ago) Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and politician (born 1905)
1982 (44 years ago) Marguerite Henry, Australian zoologist (born 1895)
1991 (35 years ago) Berenice Abbott, American photographer (born 1898)
1992 (34 years ago) Vincent Gardenia, American actor (born 1922)
1993 (33 years ago) Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (born 1926)
1995 (31 years ago) Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (born 1939)
1995 (31 years ago) Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (born 1907)
1996 (30 years ago) Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (born 1956)
1996 (30 years ago) Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1913)
1996 (30 years ago) Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician (born 1909)
1996 (30 years ago) Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (born 1908)
1998 (28 years ago) Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1948)
1998 (28 years ago) Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (born 1913)
2001 (25 years ago) Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (born 1915)
2002 (24 years ago) Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (born 1966)
2002 (24 years ago) Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (born 1944)
2002 (24 years ago) Stan Rice, American painter and poet (born 1942)
2003 (23 years ago) Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
2003 (23 years ago) Paul Simon, American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (born 1928)
2005 (21 years ago) György Sándor, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (born 1912)
2005 (21 years ago) Robert Sheckley, American author (born 1928)
2006 (20 years ago) Georgia Gibbs, American singer (born 1919)
2007 (19 years ago) Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver (born 1981)
2007 (19 years ago) Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, author, and academic (born 1918)
2008 (18 years ago) Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (born 1972)
2008 (18 years ago) Yury Glazkov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1939)
2009 (17 years ago) Gene Barry, American actor (born 1919)
2010 (16 years ago) James Moody, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (born 1925)
2010 (16 years ago) Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (born 1924)
2012 (14 years ago) Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter and academic (born 1918)
2012 (14 years ago) Patrick Moore, English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (born 1923)
2012 (14 years ago) Alex Moulton, English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (born 1920)
2012 (14 years ago) Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1969)
2012 (14 years ago) Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (born 1927)
2012 (14 years ago) Riccardo Schicchi, Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (born 1953)
2012 (14 years ago) Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (born 1921)
2013 (13 years ago) Hristu Cândroveanu, Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (born 1928)
2013 (13 years ago) John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1909)
2013 (13 years ago) Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (born 1930)
2013 (13 years ago) Eleanor Parker, American actress (born 1922)
2013 (13 years ago) John Wilbur, American football player (born 1943)
2014 (12 years ago) Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (born 1933)
2014 (12 years ago) Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (born 1924)
2014 (12 years ago) Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (born 1923)
2014 (12 years ago) Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (born 1937)
2014 (12 years ago) Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1947)
2014 (12 years ago) Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (born 1926)
2015 (11 years ago) Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (born 1927)
2015 (11 years ago) Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (born 1941)
2015 (11 years ago) Juvenal Juvêncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
2015 (11 years ago) Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (born 1936)
2021 (5 years ago) Speedy Duncan, American football player (born 1942)
2021 (5 years ago) Demaryius Thomas, American football player (born 1987)
2022 (4 years ago) Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (born 1993)
2024 (2 years ago) Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer and activist (born 1943)