On This Day — December 9
3736 noted people were born and 1966 died on December 9 in our archive, including Fritz Haber, Joseph Needham and Nikolai Luzin.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 9
Fritz Haber
1868 – 1934
Joseph Needham
1900 – 1995
Nikolai Luzin
1883 – 1950
Albert J. Reiss
1922 – 2006
Alexey Olenin
1763 – 1843
Charles DeLisi
b. 1941
Charles Edward Clark
1889 – 1963
Christina Egelund
b. 1977
Danny Cohen
1937 – 2019
Denise Phua
b. 1959
Dimitris Trichopoulos
1938 – 2014
Edoardo Sanguineti
1930 – 2010
Eduard Herbst
1820 – 1892
Emanuel Sperner
1905 – 1980
Emil Hațieganu
1878 – 1959
Empress Masako
b. 1963
Fernando María Castiella y Maíz
1907 – 1976
Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken
1830 – 1896
Georgios E. Mylonas
1898 – 1988
Gerhard Gran
1856 – 1925
Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto
1944 – 2020
Gideon Sa'ar
b. 1966
Grace Eleanor Hadow
1875 – 1940
Hyeon Taeg-hwan
b. 1964
Isabelle Kocher
b. 1966
Jean Mermoz
1901 – 1936
Jeanne Quint Benoliel
1919 – 2012
Jonathan Sumption
b. 1948
Larry Emdur
b. 1964
Laurits Tuxen
1853 – 1927
Paolo Corsini
b. 1947
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
1843 – 1916
Rab Butler
1902 – 1982
Renato Janine Ribeiro
b. 1949
Richard Gallo
b. 1958
Robin Popplestone
1938 – 2004
Sandra Knapp
b. 1956
Stacey Abrams
b. 1973
Stefan Żółkiewski
1911 – 1991
Stuart Parkin
b. 1955
Thomas Wyse
1791 – 1862
Tom Daschle
b. 1947
Volha Čuprys
b. 1969
William Whiston
1667 – 1752
Yelena Mizulina
b. 1954
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
b. 1947
Éric Anceau
b. 1966
Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen
1885 – 1951
Abraham Vater
1684 – 1751
Adrienne Adams
b. 1960
Aleksandr Verkhovsky
1886 – 1938
Alexandros Papagos
1883 – 1955
Alexei Overchuk
b. 1964
Alexey Pesoshin
b. 1963
Anatoly Wasserman
b. 1952
André du Laurens
1558 – 1609
Andrée Viollis
1870 – 1950
Angelo Dell'Acqua
1903 – 1972
Anna Diggs Taylor
1932 – 2017
Antonio Ros de Olano
1808 – 1886
Arevik Petrosyan
b. 1972
Avram Imbroane
1880 – 1938
Barbara Fraumeni
b. 1949
Beril Dedeoğlu
1961 – 2019
Betty Boyd
1924 – 2011
Bjarne Laustsen
b. 1953
Bob Hawke
1929 – 2019
Boris Francis Nicolas Boillon
b. 1969
Boris Zala
b. 1954
Bruno Trentin
1926 – 2007
Cao Gangchuan
b. 1935
Carl David af Wirsén
1842 – 1912
Carl-August Fleischhauer
1930 – 2005
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
1920 – 2016
Christine Delphy
b. 1941
Ciro Rodriguez
b. 1946
Clarence Birdseye
1886 – 1956
Claude Louis Berthollet
1748 – 1822
Corinne Vigreux
b. 1964
David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone
b. 1946
Dea Trier Mørch
1941 – 2001
Dino Piero Giarda
b. 1936
Dolores Ibárruri
1895 – 1989
Donald Byrd
1932 – 2013
Donald Pfaff
b. 1939
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1909 – 2000
Dov Segev-Steinberg
b. 1956
Edouard Buntzen
1809 – 1885
Eileen Myles
b. 1949
Einars Repše
b. 1961
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1915 – 2006
Elita Veidemane
b. 1955
Elsa Reichmanis
b. 1953
Erhard Eppler
1926 – 2019
Erika Hilton
b. 1992
Ernest Gellner
1925 – 1995
Ernest Ryder
b. 1957
Ernesto Sanz
b. 1956
Fawzia Fahim
b. 1931
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
1754 – 1826
Francis de Noyelle
1919 – 2017
Fred Bachrach
1914 – 2009
Fred Dretske
1932 – 2013
Fredrik Elfving
1854 – 1942
Fredrik Ramel
1872 – 1947
Frédéric Cuvillier
b. 1968
George Barnett
1859 – 1930
George Bass
1932 – 2021
George Strahan
1838 – 1887
Georgios Drossinis
1859 – 1951
Gerard Batliner
1928 – 2008
Giulio Tonti
1844 – 1918
Glenn Youngkin
b. 1966
Grace Hopper
1906 – 1992
Grigorios Xenopoulos
1867 – 1951
Gustav Roch
1839 – 1866
Har Swarup
1922 – 1981
Harvey Kushner
b. 1941
Henri Lémery
1874 – 1972
Henrietta H. Fore
b. 1948
Henriette Reker
b. 1956
Henry Way Kendall
1926 – 1999
Herbert Hunger
1914 – 2000
Hiroshi Yamamoto
b. 1954
Hugh Binney
1883 – 1953
Ichikawa En'ō II
1939 – 2023
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov
b. 1956
Ingo Gerhartz
b. 1965
Jaak Jõerüüt
b. 1947
James Rainwater
1917 – 1986
Jean-Claude Juncker
b. 1954
Jeff Smith
b. 1973
Jerzy Skolimowski
1907 – 1985
Joaquin Turina
1882 – 1949
Johannes B. Kerner
b. 1964
John J. Jacob
1829 – 1893
John Knott
1938 – 2017
John Simon
1818 – 1897
John Tyler Caldwell
1911 – 1995
José Luis Ábalos
b. 1959
Juan J. de Pablo
b. 1962
Judi Dench
b. 1934
Juozas Ambrazevičius
1903 – 1974
Karl Söderholm
1859 – 1948
Katarzyna Jaszczolt
b. 1963
Katherine Greacen Nelson
1913 – 1982
Ke Wu
b. 1962
Kherwal Soren
b. 1957
Kirk Douglas
1916 – 2020
Kirsten Gillibrand
b. 1966
Krisztián Cser
b. 1977
Kuan Bi-ling
b. 1956
Louis Kronenberger
1904 – 1980
Louis-Marie-Victor d'Aumont
1632 – 1704
Léonie Adams
1899 – 1988
Mary Cecil Tenison Woods
1893 – 1971
Mary Fallin
b. 1954
Marye Anne Fox
1947 – 2021
Mihail Manoilescu
1891 – 1950
Mikel Azurmendi
1942 – 2021
Mikhail Piotrovsky
b. 1944
Mário Centeno
b. 1966
Neal S. Wolin
b. 1961
Niko Paech
b. 1960
Nikolay Bogolepov
1846 – 1901
Ole A. Sæther
1936 – 2013
Olena Vitenko
b. 1960
Pekka Lundmark
b. 1963
Pete Olson
b. 1962
Peter Jackson
b. 1955
Radu Irimescu
1890 – 1975
Raphaël Rouquier
b. 1969
Reuben Hersh
1927 – 2020
Robert Gildea
b. 1952
Roger Chartier
b. 1945
Roman Bartoszcze
1946 – 2015
Ron Boswell
1940 – 2026
Roy DeCarava
1919 – 2009
Sergiu Prodan
b. 1963
Severino Grattoni
1815 – 1876
Shatrughan Sinha
b. 1945
Shigeyoshi Inoue
1889 – 1975
Shwetak Patel
b. 1981
Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet
1758 – 1838
Sonia Gandhi
b. 1946
Stefan Danailov
1942 – 2019
Stephen Jurika
1910 – 1993
Steven Holl
b. 1947
Sun Yeli
b. 1964
Susanna Moore
b. 1945
Tadeusz Kościński
b. 1956
Tatyana Kravchenko
b. 1953
Thomas Bever
b. 1939
Thomas Egleston
1832 – 1900
Thomas Harvey Johnston
1881 – 1951
Timothy Brown
b. 1946
Tip O'Neill
1912 – 1994
Tom Carlson
b. 1941
Vaclav Smil
b. 1943
Vasso Papandreou
1944 – 2024
… and 3,536 more
Died on December 9
Riccardo Giacconi
1931 – 2018
Antonio Salandra
1853 – 1931
Artem Mikoyan
1905 – 1970
Arthur N. Holcombe
1884 – 1977
Denys Puech
1854 – 1942
Edmund Leslie Newcombe
1859 – 1931
Ferdinand Brunetière
1849 – 1906
Fulton J. Sheen
1895 – 1979
Hiroshi Shimomura
1875 – 1957
James Wilford Garner
1871 – 1938
John Jackson
1887 – 1958
Juan de la Cierva
1895 – 1936
Nils Gustaf Dalén
1869 – 1937
Patrick Moore
1923 – 2012
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
1843 – 1916
Paul Simon
1928 – 2003
Robert Jervis
1940 – 2021
Ajoy Roy
1935 – 2019
Alain Poher
1909 – 1996
Almeida Garrett
1799 – 1854
Andrew Ramsay
1814 – 1891
Andrzej Strug
1871 – 1937
András Beck
1911 – 1985
André Beaunier
1869 – 1925
Anne-Louis Girodet
1767 – 1824
Antoine Germain Labarraque
1777 – 1850
Arvid Lindman
1862 – 1936
Ashot Melkonian
1930 – 2009
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
1930 – 2013
Benjamin Bond Cabbell
1781 – 1874
Berenice Abbott
1898 – 1991
Boris Taslitzky
1911 – 2005
Carl Gyllenborg
1679 – 1746
Carl Justi
1832 – 1912
Clement IX
1600 – 1669
Clement Walker Heneage
1831 – 1901
Dirom Grey Crawford
1857 – 1942
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
1856 – 1941
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
1609 – 1674
Eleanor Parker
1922 – 2013
Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin
1936 – 2024
Fernando de Valdés y Salas
1483 – 1568
Firoz Khan Nun
1893 – 1970
Franz Ollendorff
1900 – 1981
Friedhelm Farthmann
1930 – 2024
Grant Munro
1923 – 2017
György Sándor
1912 – 2005
Hanns Ludin
1905 – 1947
Hans Gross
1847 – 1915
Harry F. Ward
1873 – 1966
Heinrich Debus
1824 – 1916
Henry Cleary
1849 – 1929
Henry Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe
1727 – 1760
Héctor Recalde
1938 – 2024
Imre Varga
1923 – 2019
Ivan Snegiryov
1793 – 1868
Jack K. Hale
1928 – 2009
Jacq Firmin Vogelaar
1944 – 2013
Jeanne Gervais
1922 – 2012
Joe Clark
1897 – 1992
Johann Reinhold Forster
1729 – 1798
John Winfield Bonser
1847 – 1914
Jonathan Wartiovaara
1875 – 1937
Josefina Ludmer
1939 – 2016
Joseph M. Swing
1894 – 1984
Jože Toporišič
1926 – 2014
Karl Otto Pöhl
1929 – 2014
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García
1930 – 2009
Konstantin Treffner
1885 – 1978
Lafayette Mendel
1872 – 1935
Lawrence Lewis
1879 – 1943
Leon Orbeli
1882 – 1958
Leonid Bronevoy
1928 – 2017
Lev Kasso
1865 – 1914
Llewellyn Gwynne
1863 – 1957
Max Bill
1908 – 1994
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
1828 – 1921
Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling
1671 – 1729
Nikki Giovanni
1943 – 2024
Norm Sloan
1926 – 2003
Oliver Byrne
1810 – 1880
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
1822 – 1908
Oskari Mantere
1874 – 1942
Richard Claverhouse Jebb
1841 – 1905
Richard Pilkington
1908 – 1976
Rod Paige
1933 – 2025
Rodrigo Carazo Odio
1926 – 2009
Rudolf Meidner
1914 – 2005
Ryszard Reiff
1923 – 2007
Sacvan Bercovitch
1933 – 2014
Samuel Swett Green
1837 – 1918
Shamim Alam Khan
1937 – 2021
Silvia Pinto
1937 – 1982
Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet
1866 – 1921
Terry Davis
1938 – 2024
Thomas Fairfax
1693 – 1781
Thomas François Burgers
1834 – 1881
Théodule-Armand Ribot
1839 – 1916
Tytus Maksymilian Huber
1872 – 1950
Veijo Puhjo
1948 – 2019
Viačasław Kiebič
1936 – 2020
Walter John Stoessel
1920 – 1986
William N. Small
1927 – 2016
William Oxley Thompson
1855 – 1933
Yuri Shaporin
1887 – 1966
Élcio Álvares
1932 – 2016
A. E. Levett
1881 – 1932
Abb Landis
1856 – 1927
Abram Dragomirov
1868 – 1955
Achille-Louis Martinet
1806 – 1877
Adolf Schrödter
1805 – 1875
Al Unser
1939 – 2021
Albert Merlin
1931 – 2015
Aleksandr Neumyvakin
1940 – 2021
Alenka Gerlovič
1919 – 2010
Alex Olmedo
1936 – 2020
Alexander Pypin
1833 – 1904
Alf R. Bjercke
1921 – 2011
Alfred G. Allen
1867 – 1932
Alfred Lucas
1867 – 1945
Ali İhsan Sâbis
1882 – 1957
Anat Gov
1953 – 2012
Andy Anderson
1913 – 2010
Anna Czóbel
1918 – 2012
Anna Heer
1863 – 1918
Antal Apró
1913 – 1994
Anthony van Dyck
1599 – 1641
Anton Dunckern
1905 – 1985
Arne Berner
1927 – 1988
Arthur Humphreys-Owen
1836 – 1905
Arthur Stewart King Scarf
1913 – 1941
Arthur van Gehuchten
1861 – 1914
August Hjalmar Edgren
1840 – 1903
Barbara Alby
1946 – 2012
C. J. Stevens
1927 – 2021
Caleb Saleeby
1878 – 1940
Carl Culmann
1821 – 1881
Carles Soler i Perdigó
1932 – 2023
Charles A. Ott Jr.
1920 – 2006
Charles Crossland
1844 – 1916
Charles Dalton
1850 – 1933
Charles E. Hart
1900 – 1991
Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
1840 – 1922
Charles Léon Hammes
1898 – 1967
Chunilal Madia
1922 – 1968
Clara Pinto Correia
1960 – 2025
Clarice Lispector
1920 – 1977
Claud Russell
1871 – 1959
Clifton N. McArthur
1879 – 1923
Danny Blanchflower
1926 – 1993
David McMurtry
1940 – 2024
David W. Williams
1949 – 2017
Dionisio Calvo
1904 – 1977
Domingo Vásquez
1846 – 1909
Dominique Joseph Garat
1749 – 1833
Dorise Nielsen
1902 – 1980
Dov Shilansky
1924 – 2010
Earl McCready
1908 – 1983
Edward Downes Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough
1841 – 1915
Edward Henry Ozmun
1857 – 1910
Edward J. Bloustein
1925 – 1989
Edwin Burr Babbitt
1862 – 1939
Edwin Keith Thomson
1919 – 1960
Edwin Ruud
1854 – 1932
Eric Anderson
1970 – 2018
Erkki Kaila
1867 – 1944
Esdras Minville
1896 – 1975
Esmond Emerson Snell
1914 – 2003
Eugène Gigout
1844 – 1925
Eulogio Rodriguez
1883 – 1964
Fabian Birkowski
1566 – 1636
Francis Blanchard
1916 – 2009
Francis R. Smith
1911 – 1982
Frank B. James
1912 – 2004
Franz Rohr von Denta
1854 – 1927
François Bazin
1897 – 1956
François Lenormant
1837 – 1883
Frederick C. Crawford
1891 – 1994
Frederick Stewart
1916 – 2001
Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn
1778 – 1845
Gene Barry
1919 – 2009
Georges Dufrénoy
1870 – 1943
Georges Monnet
1898 – 1980
Ger Klein
1925 – 1998
Giosuè Ligios
1928 – 2021
Giovanni Klaus Koenig
1924 – 1989
Gordon Scholes
1931 – 2018
Gordon W. Shepherd
1897 – 1978
Gwen Harwood
1920 – 1995
Harris C. Hartwell
1847 – 1891
Hasan Cemil Çambel
1879 – 1967
Heinz Graffunder
1926 – 1994
Henry A. Coffeen
1841 – 1912
Henry Ritchie
1876 – 1958
Herbert Deutsch
1932 – 2022
Hermann Heinrich Becker
1820 – 1885
Hugh Allan
1810 – 1882
Ilya Sobol
1926 – 2025
Im Chung-sik
1922 – 1974
Jaan Lepp
1895 – 1941
… and 1,766 more