January 9
January 9 is the ninth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of the year (357 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin (b. 1119)
- 1282 - Abu 'Ulthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Menorca (b. 1204)
- 1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese politician (b. 1236)
- 1499 - John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
- 1514 – Anne, Queen of France (b. 1477)
- 1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
- 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
- 1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
- 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
- 1858 – Anson Jones, last President of Texas (b. 1798)
- 1873 – Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
- 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- 1878 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1901 – 2000
- 1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
- 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
- 1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovenian flight pioneer (b. 1886)
- 1918 - Charles-Emile Reynaud, French scientist and educator (b. 1844)
- 1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
- 1924 - Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Ceylonese politician (b. 1853)
- 1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German writer (b. 1855)
- 1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1886)
- 1940 - J. C. W. Beckham, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1869)
- 1941 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (b. 1874)
- 1944 – Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (b. 1874)
- 1945 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1867)
- 1964 - Halide Edip Adivar, Turkish novelist, nationalist and activist (b. 1884)
- 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
- 1975 - Piotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (b. 1891)
- 1993 - Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Mario Genta, Italian footballer (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
- 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1916)
- 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and writer (b. 1909)
From 2001
- 2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Antonín Klimek, Czech historian (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Jean-Pierre Vernant, French philosopher and historian (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Dave Dee, British musician (b. 1943)
- 2009 – René Herms, German athlete (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Peter Yates, British movie director (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Malam Bacai Sanha, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
- 2012 - Mae Laborde, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2013 - Rex Trailer, American television host, actor and singer (b. 1928)
- 2013 - James M. Buchanan, American economist (b. 1919)
- 2014 - Dale T. Mortensen, American economist (b. 1939)
- 2014 - Amiri Baraka, American poet (b. 1934)
- 2014 - Josep Maria Castellet, Catalan writer (b. 1926)
- 2014 - Lorella De Luca, Italian actress (b. 1940)
- 2014 - Cliff Carpenter, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2015 - Jozef Oleksy, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
- 2015 - Angelo Anquilletti, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
- 2015 - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., American movie producer (b. 1926)
- 2015 - Frans Molenaar, Dutch fashion designer (b. 1940)
- 2015 - Robert V. Keeley, American diplomat (b. 1929)
- 2015 - Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (b. 1964)
- 2015 - Popsy Dixon, American musician (b. 1942)
- 2015 - Chuck Locke, American baseball player (b. 1932)
- 2015 - Michel Jeury, French writer (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and related attacks:
- Chérif Kouachi, French Islamic Jihadist (b. 1982)
- Saïd Kouachi, French Islamic Jihadist (b. 1980)
- Amedy Coulibaly, French Islamic Jihadist (b. 1982)
- 2016 - Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Lawrence H. Cohn, American surgeon (b. 1937)
- 2016 - Hamada Emam, Egyptian footballer (b. 1947)
- 2016 - Peter Gavin Hall, Australian mathematician (b. 1951)
- 2016 - Ed Stewart, English broadcaster (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Merab Chigoev, South Ossetian politician (b. 1950)
- 2016 - Umberto Raho, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 2016 - Angus Scrimm, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Zelimkhan Yaqub, Azerbaijani poet (b. 1950)
- 2016 - John Harvard, Canadian politician (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Michael Chamberlain, New Zealand-Australian pastor (b. 1944)
- 2017 - Ulf Dinkelspiel, Swedish politician (b. 1939)
- 2017 - Ali Shariatmadari, Iranian politician and academic (b. 1923)
- 2017 - Ugo Crescenzi, Italian politician (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Bob McCullough, Australian sports administrator
- 2017 - Warren Allen Smith, American activist and writer (b. 1921)
- 2017 - Claude Steiner, French-born American psychologist and writer (b. 1935)
- 2017 - Russell Trood, Australian politician and academic (b. 1948)
- 2018 - Bob Bailey, American baseball player (b. 1942)
- 2018 - Tommy Lawrence, Scottish footballer (b. 1940)
- 2018 - Robert Minlos, Russian mathematician (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Odvar Nordli, Prime minister of Norway (b. 1927)
- 2018 - Mario Perniola, Italian philosopher (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Ted Phillips, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 2018 - Milton J. Rosenberg, American psychology professor and radio host (b. 1925)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Ishman Bracey, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1970)
- 1901 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1902 - Saint Josemaria Escriva, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer (d. 1986)
- 1909 – Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (d. 2008)
- 1911 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer (d. 1970)
- 1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1914 - Kenny Clarke, American jazz musician (d. 1985)
- 1915 - Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1916 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor and movie producer (d. 1982)
- 1916 - Peter Twinn, French mathematician and entomologist (d. 2004)
- 1917 - Yngve A. A. Larsson, Swedish medicine professor and diabetologist (d. 2014)
- 1920 - Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 1998)
- 1920 – Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 2012)
- 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American writer (d. 1995)
- 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
- 1924 – Sergei Parajanov, Armenian movie director (d. 1990)
- 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1927 - Rodolfo Walsh, Argentine writer (d. 1977)
- 1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian actor, singer and guitarist (d. 1994)
- 1928 - Judith Krantz, American writer
- 1929 – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
- 1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist and short story writer (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (d. 2011)
- 1931 - Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-born American science fiction writer (d. 2008)
- 1932 - Robert P. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2000)
- 1934 - Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1935 - Brian Harradine, Australian politician (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
- 1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
- 1941 - Robert D. Putnam, American political scientist
- 1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Canadian politician
- 1942 - Lee Kun-hee, South Korean businessman
- 1942 - Keith Wright, Australian politician (d. 2015)
- 1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian
- 1943 - Scott Walker, American singer and musician
- 1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
- 1944 - Massimiliano Fuksas, Italian architect, poet and painter
- 1945 – Levon Ter-Petrossian, first President of Armenia
- 1946 - Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician
- 1948 - Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1948 - Jan Tomaszewski, Polish footballer and politician
- 1950 – Rio Reiser, German musician (d. 1996)
- 1950 - Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Crystal Gayle, American singer
- 1951 - Michel Barnier, French politician
- 1952 - Marek Belka, former Prime Minister of Poland
- 1952 - Michael Capuano, American politician
- 1953 - Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist
- 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, English writer
- 1953 - Bill Graves, former Governor of Kansas
- 1954 - Philippa Gregory, English writer
- 1954 - Lance Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
- 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
- 1956 – Imelda Staunton, British actress
- 1957 - Yury Bandazhevsky, Belarusian scientist
- 1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
- 1958 – Mehmet Ali Agca, attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
- 1959 – Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 1961 – Al Jean, American television writer
- 1962 - Matt Bevin, American politician, 42nd Governor of Kentucky
- 1963 - Michael Everson, American linguist
- 1964 - Stephen Sackur, British journalist
- 1965 – Iain Dowie, British footballer and manager
- 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
- 1965 – Joely Richardson, British actress
- 1965 - Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
- 1965 - Farah Khan, Indian director, actress and choreographer
- 1966 - Stephen Metcalfe, English politician
- 1967 – Dave Matthews, Australian singer and musician
- 1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentine footballer
- 1967 - Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
- 1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
- 1968 - Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
- 1970 - Lara Fabian, Swiss singer
- 1971 - Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress and television host
- 1972 - Sarah Beeny, British television personality
- 1973 - Angela Bettis, American actress, movie producer and director
- 1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian actor, singer, director and producer
From 1976
- 1976 - Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
- 1977 - Viktors Dobrecovs, Latvian footballer
- 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
- 1978 – AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1979 - Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
- 1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
- 1980 – Sergio Garcia, Spanish golfer
- 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
- 1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1982 - Grétar Steinsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1985 - Juanfran, Spanish footballer
- 1986 - Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer
- 1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter
- 1987 - Bradley Davies, Welsh rugby player
- 1987 - Rhys Priestland, Welsh rugby player
- 1987 - Anna Tatangelo, Italian singer
- 1987 - Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 - Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer
- 1989 - Michael Beasley, American basketball player
- 1989 - Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
- 1990 - Nam Ji-hyun, South Korean singer and actress
- 1992 - Terrence Jones, American basketball player
- 1993 - Ashley Argota, American actress
- 1993 - Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English athlete
- 1993 - Aminata Savadogo, Latvian singer and songwriter
- 1995 - Nicola Peltz, American actress
- Unknown year - Fang Bo, Chinese ping-pong player
Deaths
Observances
- Martyrs' Day (Panama)