December 9 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 9, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#314 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 9 birthdays
Peter Kropotkin · Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher1842
Fritz Haber · German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize1868
Dalton Trumbo · American screenwriter1905
Grace Hopper · American computer scientist and United States Navy officer1906
Broderick Crawford · American actor1911
Kirk Douglas · American actor1916
James Rainwater · American physicist1917
William Lipscomb · Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist1919
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi · President of Italy from 1999 to 20061920
Henry Way Kendall · American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics1926
John Cassavetes · Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter1929
Judi Dench · English actress1934
Sonia Gandhi · Indian politician1946
John Malkovich · American actor1953
Jean-Claude Juncker · Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission1954
Felicity Huffman · American actress1962
Kirsten Gillibrand · American politician1966
Tré Cool · American drummer1972
Simon Helberg · American actor and comedian1980
Hikaru Nakamura · American chess player1987
On this day in history
1775American Revolutionary War: After their loss in the Battle of Great Bridge, British authorities were forced to evacuate from the Colony of Virginia.
2008Rod Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, was arrested on corruption charges, including for attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by president-elect Barack Obama.
2017Same-sex marriage in Australia became legal as the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 came into effect.
2022Members of the European Parliament, including Vice President Eva Kaili, and their associates are arrested in connection with the Qatar corruption scandal.
1965A large, brilliant fireball was seen by thousands in midwestern North America before landing in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
1990In Serbia's first multi-party election, Slobodan Milošević won the presidential election and the Socialist Party of Serbia won the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
1992American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
2016Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached, marking the culmination of the country's political scandal.
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