November 9 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 9, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#248 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 9 birthdays
Ivan Turgenev · Russian writer1818
Edward VII · King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 19101841
Muhammad Iqbal · British-Indian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician1877
Enrico De Nicola · President of Italy from 1946 to 19481877
Hermann Weyl · German mathematician1885
Hedy Lamarr · Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique1914
Spiro Agnew · Vice president of the United States from 1969 to 19731918
Dorothy Dandridge · American actress and singer1922
Imre Lakatos · Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science1922
Anne Sexton · American poet1928
Imre Kertész · Hungarian author1929
Carl Sagan · American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author1934
Mikhail Tal · Soviet-Latvian chess player1936
Luiz Felipe Scolari · Brazilian association football player and manager1948
Jack W. Szostak · American biologist1952
Andreas Brehme · German association football player1960
Ryan Murphy · American screenwriter1965
Chris Jericho · American-Canadian professional wrestler1970
Eric Dane · American actor1972
Alessandro Del Piero · Italian association football player1974
On this day in history
1822USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
1967The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
2019Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border.
2023U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
1989East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night (border crossing pictured).
1993Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar (rebuilt bridge pictured).
1998A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
2011The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.
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