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December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common This article is about the year For the film see 2009 Lost Memories. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Events 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Events 537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed 1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common December 2007 is the twelfth month of that year It began on a Saturday and 31 days later ended on a Monday PortalCurrent events News collections and sources See WikipediaNews collections and sources. December 2004: ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September December 9, 2003 December 2003 - please do not remove the date header or category redirect December 2002: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - December 2001: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - December 2000: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or in the case of Lunisolar calendars an extra month in order to keep the The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today There are 22 days remaining until the end of the year.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links

Events

• 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire. Events By Place Byzantine Empire April — Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in Italy Flavius Belisarius (Βελισάριος (505(? – 565 was one of the greatest Generals of the Byzantine Empire and one of the most acclaimed generals in history Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 The Ostrogoths (Ostrogothi or Austrogothi were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a major role in the political events of the late
• 1425 - The Catholic University of Leuven is founded. The Catholic University of Leuven, or Louvain, was the largest oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.
• 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. Year 1793 ( MDCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The City of New York A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Noah Webster (October 16 1758 &ndash May 28 1843 was an American Lexicographer, textbook author Spelling reformer word enthusiast and editor
• 1824 - 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. Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá ( February 3 1795 &ndash June 4 1830) was a South American independence leader The Battle of Ayacucho was a decisive military encounter during the Peruvian War of Independence. At the time of the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and the degradation of the Royal power took place and under the attack of Buenos Aires armies in Upper Peru
• 1835 - The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas. Year 1835 ( MDCCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Republic of Texas was a sovereign Nation in North America between the United States and Mexico that existed from 1836 to
• 1851 - The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec. 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year The Young Men's Christian Association (" YMCA " or " the Y " was founded on June 6, 1844 in London England by a young man Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec
• 1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Bushehr or Bushire ( Persian:بوشهر pop 165377 (in 2005) is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress. Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War was a United States Congressional investigating committee created to handle issues surrounding the American Civil War The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses
• 1872 - In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U. Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback ( May 10 1837 December 21 1921) was the first African American to become Governor of a African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa S. state.
• 1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Although there are several clubs that claim the title the '''Massachusetts Rifle Association''' (also known as " Walnut Hill " "Mass Rifle" or the "MRA"
• 1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Herman Hollerith ( February 29, 1860 &ndash November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician who developed a The United States Department of War, sometimes also called the War Office, was the department of the United States government 's executive branch
• 1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Marguerite Durand ( January 24, 1864 &ndash March 16, 1936) was a French stage actress journalist and a leading Suffragette Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. La Fronde (The Sling was a French feminist Newspaper first published in Paris on December 9, 1897 by activist Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
• 1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and State ( French: Loi du 9 décembre 1905 concernant la séparation des Églises et de l'État) was passed by
• 1917 - In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. For other meanings see Field Marshal (disambiguation Field marshal is a military officer rank Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby 1st Viscount Allenby GCB GCMG GCVO ( April 23 1861 - May 14 1936 Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the
• 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Gabriel Narutowicz ( March 17 1865 &ndash December 16 1922) was the first President of Poland. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland
• 1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Constituent Cortes (Cortes constituyentes is the description of the Cortes ( Spanish Parliament) when convened as a constituent assembly. The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14 1931, when King Alfonso XIII left the country
• 1935 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Walter Liggett (1886-1935 American journalist was known to be a crusading newspaper editor in the Minnesota of the 1930s
• 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing - Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Second Sino-Japanese War ( July 7, 1937 to September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the The Battle of Nanjing ( began after the fall of Shanghai in October 9, 1937, and ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanjing The Empire of Japan ( {{unicode|Kyūjitai}}: ja 大日本帝國 Shinjitai: ja 大日本帝国 pronounced Dai Nippon Teikoku Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing. REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES ( Chinese: 南京 Romanizations Nánjīng ( Pinyin) Nan-ching ( Wade-Giles
• 1940 - 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. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Operation Compass was the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during World War II. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor KT, GCB, DSO & Bar, MC, ADC ( 21 August 1889 &ndash During the era of World War II (1939 - 1945 the Kingdom of Italy had a very varied and tumultuous Military history. Sidi Barrani (سيدي برّاني is a Village in Egypt, near the Mediterranean Sea, about95 km This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics.
• 1941 - World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la Guatemala (República de Guatemala) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west the Pacific Ocean to the southwest The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was a Government in exile based in Shanghai, China and later in Chongqing, during the The Commonwealth of the Philippines was the political designation of the Philippines from 1935 to 1946 when the country was a commonwealth with the United Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
• 1941 - World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. The City of Vigan is a 3rd class city in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important Island in the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country with Visayas
• 1946 - The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials (more formally the Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals) were a series of twelve U The Doctors' Trial (officially United States of America v Karl Brandt et al A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Nazi human experimentation was a series of controversial medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners by the German Nazi regime in its Concentration
• 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This page is about the Soviet agent For the jazz musician please see Harry Gold (musician. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( December 29, 1911 &ndash January 28, 1988) was a German -born theoretical physicist and The World War II Manhattan Project developed the first Nuclear weapon (atomic bomb The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Julius Rosenberg (May 12 1918 &ndash June 19 1953 and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28 1915 &ndash June 19 1953 were American Communists who were executed
• 1953 - Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States in a period that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based
• 1958 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society was founded in the United States. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The John Birch Society is a political education and action organization founded by Robert W The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
• 1961 - The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics.
• 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. Tanganyika is the name of an East African territory lying between the largest of the African great lakes Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika
• 1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. NLS, or the "oN-Line System" was a revolutionary Computer collaboration system designed by Douglas Engelbart and the researchers In Computing, a mouse (plural mice, mouse devices, or mouses) The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city
• 1979 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Smallpox is an Infectious disease unique to humans caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. A virus (from the Latin virus meaning Toxin or Poison) is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable
• 1987 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The First Intifada (1987–1993 (also " Intifada " and "war of the stones" was a mass Palestinian uprising against Israeli The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة, רצועת עזה Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the south-west The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria
• 1988 - The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Sligo (disambiguation Sligo ( (ˈslaɪɡoʊ "sly-go" Irish ˈɕlʲɪɟəx is the County town of County Sligo in Ireland. Sligo (disambiguation Sligo ( (ˈslaɪɡoʊ "sly-go" Irish ˈɕlʲɪɟəx is the County town of County Sligo in Ireland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world
• 1990 - Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland
• 2003 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The 2003 Red Square bombing was the 9 December 2003 Suicide bombing near Red Square in Moscow. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of
• 2006 - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The 2006 Moscow hospital fire was a fire that occurred on December 9 in a drug addict rehabilitation centre in Southern Moscow, Russia

Births

• 1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
• 1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. For the crater see Gemma Frisius (crater Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, December 9, 1508 - May 25 1555)
• 1561 - Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (d. Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 &ndash October 1629 was a British Statesman and one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia 1629)
• 1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. For the crater see Metius (crater. For Jacob Metius see Jacob Metius. 1635)
• 1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. Saint Martín de Porres ( December 9, 1579 &ndash November 3, 1639) was a Dominican cooperator brother who was beatified 1639)
• 1594 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. For the other Swedish kings known as Gustavus Adolphus see Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden or Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden 1632)
• 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and 1674)
• 1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. Baldassare Ferri ( December 9, 1610 - September 10, 1680) was an Italian Castrato singer 1680)
• 1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. Augustus Quirinus Rivinus also known as August Bachmann ( December 9, 1652 &ndash December 20, 1723) was a German 1723)
• 1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. Year 1723 ( MDCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a William Whiston ( 9 December 1667 &ndash 22 August 1752) was as English Theologian, Historian, and 1752)
• 1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. Year 1752 ( MDCCLII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar for European countries but not Great Britain) of Year 1748 ( MDCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Claude Louis Berthollet ( December 9, 1748 &ndash November 6, 1822) was a Savoyard Chemist who "became vice president 1822)
• 1751 - Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. Year 1822 (MDCCCXXII was a Common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Sunday of the Year 1751 ( MDCCLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Maria Luisa of Parma ( December 9 1751, Parma, Italy - January 2 1819, Barberini Palace, Rome 1819)
• 1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Year 1787 ( MDCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common John Dobson (1787 &ndash 1865 was a 19th century English Architect in the neoclassical tradition 1865)
• 1806 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1806 ( MDCCCVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Jean-Olivier Chénier ( December 9, 1806 – December 14, 1837) was a physician in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) The Patriote movement was a Political movement that existed in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) from the turning of the 19th century to the Patriote 1838)
• 1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1837 ( MDCCCXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Émile Waldteufel ( 9 December 1837 &ndash 12 February 1915)
• 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common 1921)
• 1847 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common George Grossmith (9 December 1847 &ndash 1 March 1912 was an English Comedian, Writer, Composer, Actor, and singer 1912)
• 1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Emma Abbott (December 9 1850 &ndash January 5 1891 was an American Operatic Soprano and Impresario known for her pure clear voice of great 1891)
• 1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Fritz Haber (9 December 1868 &ndash 29 January 1934 was a German chemist, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of Chemistry. 1934)
• 1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Joseph James Kelley ( December 9, 1871 &ndash August 14, 1943) was an American Left fielder in Major League Baseball 1943)
• 1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Berton Churchill ( December 9, 1876 &ndash October 10, 1940) was a Canadian actor 1940)
• 1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Joaquín Turina ( December 9, 1882 Seville – January 14, 1949 Madrid) was a Spanish Composer of 1949)
• 1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, (also spelled Lusin) Никола́й Никола́евич Лу́зин ( December 9, 1883, Irkutsk – January 1950)
• 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Clarence Frank Birdseye II ( December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956) was an American Inventor who is considered the founder 1956)
• 1887 - Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Tim Moore ( December 9, 1887 &ndash December 13, 1958) was a celebrated African-American vaudevillian and comic actor of the 1910s-1950s 1958)
• 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Juho Pietari "Hannes" Kolehmainen ( ( 9 December 1889 &ndash 11 January 1966) was a Finnish long-distance 1966)
• 1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Maksim Bahdanovič ( Belarusian language: Максім Багдановіч December 9, 1891 – May 25, 1917) was 1917)
• 1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Conchita Supervía ( December 9, 1895 &ndash March 30, 1936) was a notable and successful Spanish Mezzo-soprano singer 1936)
• 1897 - Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Hermione Gingold ( December 9, 1897 &ndash May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued eccentric persona 1987)
• 1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Emmett Leo Kelly ( December 9, 1898 &ndash March 28, 1979) a native of Sedan Kansas, was an American circus performer 1979)
• 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Jean de Brunhoff ( December 9, 1899 &ndash October 16, 1937) was a French writer and illustrator known for co-creating Babar 1937)
• 1900 - Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Albert Weisbord ( 9 December 1900 in New York City, New York - April 1977 was an American labor organizer 1977)
• 1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Carol Dempster ( December 9, 1901 - February 1, 1991) was a notable American film Actress of the Silent film 1991)
• 1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Ödön (Edmund Josef von Horváth, born December 9 1901 in Sušak, a suburb of Rijeka, Austria-Hungary (today in Croatia 1938)
• 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jean Mermoz ( December 9, 1901 – December 7, 1936) was a French Aviator, viewed as a hero by many in both Argentina 1936)
• 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Margaret Hamilton (December 9 &ndashMay 16) was an American film actress best known for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of 1985)
• 1904 - Robert Livingston, American actor (d. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Robert Livingston ( 9 December, 1904 &ndash 7 March, 1988) was an American film actor 1988)
• 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Dalton Trumbo ( December 9, 1905 &ndash September 10, 1976) was an American Screenwriter and Novelist, 1976)
• 1906 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ( December 9 1906 – January 1 1992) was an American Computer scientist and United 1992)
• 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr, KBE, DSC ( December 9, 1909 &ndash May 7, 2000) was an American Actor 2000)
• 1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year William Broderick Crawford ( December 9, 1911 - April 26, 1986) was an American Academy Award -winning actor 1986)
• 1911 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) was chairman of the board of directors of Asia University. He was a former army officer and business manager 2007)
• 1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr ( December 9, 1912 &ndash January 5, 1994) was an American politician. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer&mdashor speaker &mdashof the United States House of Representatives. 1994)
• 1914 - Frances Reid, American actress
• 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Frances Reid (born December 9, 1914 in Wichita Falls Texas) is an American actress. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, DBE ( December 9, 1915 &ndash August 3, 2006) was a German -born Austrian British 2006)
• 1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
• 1917 - James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year James Jesus Angleton (December 9 1917 &ndash May 12 1987 known to colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher" was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all 1987)
• 1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. Leo James Rainwater ( December 9, 1917 &ndash May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1986)
• 1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
• 1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
• 1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Jerome Beatty Jr ( December 9, 1916 — 2002 was a 20th-century author of Children's literature. Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common William Nunn Lipscomb Jr (born December 9, 1919) is an American inorganic chemist, working in experimental and Theoretical chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of Chemistry. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar (born 9 December 1920) is an Italian politician and banker He was Prime Minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and was President from 1999 This is the list of Presidents of the Italian Republic with the title it '''''Presidente della Repubblica''''' since 1948 Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Redd Foxx ( December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991) born John Elroy Sanford, His father an Electrician, left the family 1991)
• 1925 - Dina Merrill, American actress
• 1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dina Merrill (born December 9, 1925) is an American Actress and Socialite. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Henry Way Kendall ( December 9, 1926 &ndash February 15, 1999) was an American physicist The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1999)
• 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Jan Křesadlo was the primary pseudonym used by Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava ( December 9, 1926 in Prague - August 13, 1995 1995)
• 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
• 1928 - André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
• 1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
• 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pierre Henry (born December 9, 1927 in Paris, France) is a French composer considered a pioneer of the Musique concrète genre Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. André Milhoux (born December 9, 1928) is a former Racing driver from Belgium. Richard Vincent "Dick" Van Patten (born December 9 1928) is an American Actor. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Nicholas Cassavetes ( December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American Actor, Screenwriter, and director 1989)
• 1929 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
• 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor
• 1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
• 1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
• 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Robert James Lee (Bob Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929 was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister The Prime Minister of Australia is the Head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia, holding office on commission from the Governor-General. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Henry Zuckerman better known as Buck Henry (born December 9 1930 is an Academy Award -nominated American Actor, Writer, Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Reynolds (born December 9, 1931, in Los Angeles) is a retired American Television and Film Actor. Ladislav Smoljak ( December 9 1931 in Prague) is a Czech film and theater director actor and scriptwriter Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Morton Downey Jr (born Sean Morton Downey; December 9, 1932 - March 12, 2001) was a American Television Talk 2001)
• 1933 - Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
• 1934 - Dame Judi Dench, English actress
• 1934 - Junior Wells, American musician (d. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Monique Miller (born 9 December 1933) is a French Canadian actress Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December, 1934) usually known as Judi Dench, is an English Junior Wells ( December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998) born Amos Blakemore, was a blues Vocalist and Harmonica 1998)
• 1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. F Darwin Solomon ( December 9, 1937 - June 1, 1998) was an American Actor known professionally as Darwin Joston 1998)
• 1938 - David Houston, American country singer (d. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country music singer For other uses see David Houston. 1993)
• 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
• 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
• 1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
• 1942 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) David D "Deacon" Jones (born December 9, 1938 in Eatonville, Florida) is a former American football Defensive end Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dan Hicks, (born December 9, 1941, in Little Rock Arkansas) was the son of a career military man Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William "Billy" John Bremner (born Stirling, Scotland, December 9 1942; died Doncaster, England, December 1997)
• 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
• 1943 - Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 - Neil Innes, English singer (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles)
• 1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
• 1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
• 1945 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
• 1945 - Michael Nouri, American actor
• 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
• 1946 - Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
• 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
• 1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
• 1948 - Dennis Dunaway, American musician
• 1948 - Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director
• 1949 - Tom Kite, American golfer
• 1949 - Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
• 1950 - Joan Armatrading, St. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Richard Marvin "Dick" Butkus (born 9 December 1942) is a former American football player widely regarded as the greatest Linebacker Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hubert Jacques "Pit" Martin (Born - December 9, 1943 in Rouyn-Noranda Quebec) is a retired Canadian professional Ice hockey centre Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944, in Danbury, Essex) is an English writer and performer of Comic songs, best known The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and colloquially as " The Bonzos " are a band created by The Rutles was a fictional band created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a Pastiche of The Beatles. Ki Longfellow (born as Pamela Longfellow) is an American Novelist and Playwright. Robert E O'Connor Jr ( December 9 1944 – September 1 2006) was the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Matti Mäntylä (b 9 December 1945, Turku, Finland) is a Finnish Actor Michael Nouri (born December 9, 1945) is an American Television and Film Actor. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sonia Gandhi, born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino on 9 December 1946 is an Indian politician the President of the Indian National Congress and Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Shatrughan Sinha (born December 9, 1947) (also known as Shotgun is an Indian actor and now politician born in Patna, Bihar. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota. Jaak Jõerüüt (born December 9 1947) is an Estonian writer and politician Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dennis Dunaway (born December 9, 1946 in Cottage Grove Oregon) was the Bass guitarist for the The Spiders (Pre-Alice Cooper The Earwigs (Pre-Alice Marleen Gorris (born 9 December 1948, Roermond) is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Amateur wins (1 1972 NCAA Championship (individual tie with Ben Crenshaw) Professional wins (37 PGA Tour wins Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fernando Seler "Nando" Parrado ( December 9, 1949 -) is one of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of the airplane crash of Uruguayan Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading (born December 9 1950 is a British Singer, Songwriter, and Guitarist. Kitts-born English singer
• 1952 - Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
• 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
• 1953 - World B. Free, American basketball player
• 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
• 1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
• 1955 - Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
• 1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
• 1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
• 1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
• 1960 - Terry Moran, American TV reporter
• 1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
• 1960 - Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor
• 1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
• 1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
• 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
• 1963 - Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
• 1963 - Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
• 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
• 1965 - Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
• 1965 - Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
• 1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
• 1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
• 1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
• 1967 - Jason Dozzell, English footballer
• 1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
• 1968 - Kurt Angle, American wrestler
• 1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
• 1968 - Dave Harold, English snooker player
• 1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
• 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
• 1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
• 1971 - Petr Nedvěd, Czech ice hockey player
• 1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
• 1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
• 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
• 1974 - Canibus, American rapper
• 1974 - Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach
• 1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player
• 1977 - Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
• 1977 - Shayne Graham, American football player
• 1977 - Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
• 1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
• 1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
• 1979 - Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
• 1980 - Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
• 1981 - Mardy Fish, American tennis player
• 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
• 1982 - Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
• 1982 - Vincent Accardi, American guitarist Brand New
• 1983 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
• 1983 - Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
• 1990 - LaFee, German singer

Deaths

• 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
• 1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Liaqat Baloch ( Urdu: لیاقت بلوچ) (born December 9, 1952) is a political leader in Pakistan. Michael Dorn (born December 9, 1952) is an American Actor known for his role as the Klingon Worf in multiple Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. World B Free (born Lloyd Bernard Free on December 9 1953 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American former professional Basketball John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Emmy Award -winning two-time Academy Award -nominated American Actor Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Hermenegildus ("Herman" Felix Victor Maria Finkers (born December 9 1954 in Almelo, Overijssel) is a Comedian from the Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Chamras Saewataporn (born in Bangkok, Thailand on December 9, 1955) is an accomplished Thai musician and composer who first turned Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born on December 9 1957 in Ogden Utah, USA) is an American Singer, Musician, Actor Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Richard Francis Agnew Jr, (born on December 9, 1958) more commonly known as Rikk Agnew, is an American Guitarist who has played The Adolescents are a Hardcore punk band formed in 1980 in Fullerton, California. Nick Seymour (born Nicholas More Seymour 9 December 1958 in Benalla Victoria, Australia) is a Bass guitar player painter Crowded House is a rock group formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and Singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Terry Moran (born December 9 1959, Chicago Illinois) is the co-anchor of Nightline. Juan Milton Samuel (born December 9, 1960 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic) is a baseball coach and a former Second Dobroslav Paraga (born December 9, 1960 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian right-wing politician Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. David Anthony Higgins (born December 9, 1961) is a comedic actor from Des Moines Iowa. Joseph John Lando (born December 9, 1961 in Prairie View, Illinois) is an American Actor, who is most recognizable Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actress. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dave Hilton Jr (born December 9, 1963 in Port Credit Ontario) is a former boxing world champion Childhood She was born, the eldest of Hisashi Owada, a senior Diplomat. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Paul H Landers (born December 9, 1964) is a German musician notable as the rhythm-guitarist for the German Tanz-Metall ("Dance Rammstein (ˈʀamʃtaɪ̯n is a German Industrial metal band founded in Berlin, and consisting of Till Lindemann ( lead vocals Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Joseph John Ausanio (born December 9, 1965, Kingston New York) is a former Major League baseball Relief pitcher who appeared in 41 Vecepia Towery Robinson (born December 9, 1965 in Portland Oregon) won $1000000 on the Marquesas edition of Survivor, the Survivor is an American version of the Survivor Reality television Game show based on the Swedish television Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand (b December 9 1966, Albany, New York) is a Democratic politician elected on November Toby Huss (born December 9, 1966) is an American Actor. He was born in Marshalltown, Iowa. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Joshua David Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award -winning Violinist. Jason Dozzell (born 9 December 1967 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is a former professional Association footballer who made more than 500 Football League Gheorghe ("Gică" Popescu (born October 9, 1967 in Calafat) is a former Romanian footballer who played as a defender Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9 1968 is an American professional wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Brian Bell, (born December 9 1968, Iowa City, Iowa) is Weezer (ˈwizɚ is an American Alternative rock band from Los Angeles California formed in 1992 David 'Dave' Harold (born December 9, 1966) is an English professional Snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the famous Rock band The Wallflowers The Wallflowers are a Grammy Award -winning rock band from Los Angeles California. Bixente Lizarazu ( Basque: /bi'ʃente lisa'rasu/ French: /bi'gzɑ̃t lizaʀa'zy/ (born Vicente Lizarazu on December 9, 1969 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz Sebastian Spence (born December 9, 1969, in StJohn's Newfoundland, Canada) is an actor who played the lead role as Cade Foster in the Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Petr Nedvěd (born on December 9, 1971 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech - Canadian professional Ice hockey Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Reiko Aylesworth (born December 9, 1972 in Evanston Illinois) is an American film television and stage Actress, best known for Tré Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III, December 9 1972, in Frankfurt, Germany) is the Drummer of the Punk rock Green Day is an American rock trio Fabrice Vetea Santoro (born December 9, 1972) is a French professional male tennis player known for using both hands for every possible shot Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Germaine Williams, better known by his stage name Canibus, is an American Rapper. Wendy Dillinger (born December 9, 1974 in St Charles, Missouri) is an NCAA Soccer coach and former professional Soccer Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Christopher Scott Booker (born December 9, 1976 in Monroeville Alabama) is a Major League Baseball Pitcher for the Washington Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Saskia Garel is an actress (born December 9, 1977 in Kingston Jamaica; later immigrated to Toronto, Canada) Michael Shayne Graham (born December 9, 1977 in Radford, Virginia) is an American football Placekicker who currently plays Imogen Heap (ˈɪmoʊdʒən ˈhiːp (born December 9 1977) is a Grammy nominated English Singer-songwriter from Romford, Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Jesse Eden Metcalfe (born December 9, 1978) is an American actor most known for his role on Desperate Housewives as John Rowland Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Olivia Lufkin, often known simply as Olivia is a bilingual Singer-songwriter. Stephen John Paul McPhail (born 9 December 1979 in Westminster, London, raised in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Ryder Hesjedal (born December 9, 1980) is a Canadian professional Racing cyclist who currently rides for the Team Garmin-Chipotle. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Mardy Fish (born December 9, 1981 in Edina Minnesota) is an American professional Tennis player Dia Mirza Handrich (दिया मिर्ज़ा or Diya Mirza Handrich, nicknamed Dee, (born 9 December 1981 is an Indian model Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Tamilla Rashidovna Abassova (Тамилла Рашидовна Абасова born 9 December 1982 in Moscow) is a Russian Racing cyclist who won Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Brand New is an Alternative rock band based in the United States. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Dariusz Dudka ( pron ˈdarjuʂ ˈdudka born December 9, 1983 in Kostrzyn nad Odrą) is a Polish footballer who currently Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Jermaine Paul A Beckford (born 9 December 1983 in Ealing, London) is an English footballer who plays as a Striker Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Christina Panagiotis Klein (born December 9, 1990) better known by her Stage name Lafee, is a German singer/songwriter who has Malcolm IV ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Máel Coluim mac Eanric; Modern Gaelic Maol Chaluim mac Eanraig) nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" ( For other nobles of the same name please see Sigismund. Sigismund ( February 14, 1368 – December 9, 1368)
• 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. Teofilo Folengo ( November 8, 1491 - December 9, 1544) who wrote under the pseudonym of Merlino Coccajo or Merlinus Coccaius 1491)
• 1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. Pope Pius IV ( March 31, 1499 &ndash December 9, 1565) born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565 1499)
• 1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. William Watson (c April 23, 1559 &ndash December 9, 1603) English Roman Catholic priest and conspirator executed for 1559)
• 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. Ubbo Emmius ( December 5, 1547 &ndash December 9, 1625) Historian and Geographer, was born at Greetsiel in 1547)
• 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. Fabian Birkowski (1566 in Lwów - December 9, 1636 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish writer and Preacher. 1566)
• 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
• 1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. Pope Clement IX ( January 28, 1600 &ndash December 9, 1669) born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 1667 to 1669 1600)
• 1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon ( 18 February 1609 &ndash 9 December 1674) was an English Historian and statesman and 1609)
• 1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
• 1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. William Mountfort (c 1664 &ndash December 10, 1692) English Actor and dramatic writer was the son of a Staffordshire gentleman Year 1706 ( MDCCVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Ancestry Marriages and descendants Peter married first to his sister-in-law Marie-Françoise of Savoy in 1666 who gave him a daughter 1648)
• 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. Year 1718 ( MDCCXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Vincenzo Coronelli ( August 16, 1650 - December 9, 1718) was a Franciscan Monk, an Italian Cosmographer, 1650)
• 1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. Year 1793 ( MDCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron duchesse de Polignac ( 8 September 1749 &ndash 9 December 1793) was a French aristocrat 1749)
• 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. Year 1749 ( MDCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1798 ( MDCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Johann Reinhold Forster ( October 22, 1729 &ndash December 9, 1798) was a German naturalist of partial Scottish 1729)
• 1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. Year 1729 ( MDCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common For the game see 1830 (board game. Year 1830 ( MDCCCXXX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher ( November 15, 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – December 9, 1830) was a 1757)
• 1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. Year 1757 ( MDCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett, pron 1799)
• 1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. Year 1799 ( MDCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Robert Baldwin (May 12 1804 – December 9 1858 was born at York (now Toronto) 1804)
• 1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
• 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. Year 1804 ( MDCCCIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common al-Hajj Mahmadu Lamine (d December 9, 1887) was a nineteenth-century Senegalese Marabout who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the French Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв ( –) was a Russian Mathematician. 1821)
• 1916 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. Year 1821 ( MDCCCXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year was the Pen name of, who is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868-1912 1867)
• 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Andrew Rube Foster ( September 17 1879 - December 9 1930) was an American Baseball 1879)
• 1935 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Walter Liggett (1886-1935 American journalist was known to be a crusading newspaper editor in the Minnesota of the 1930s 1886)
• 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nils Gustaf Dalén ( November 30, 1869 &ndash December 9 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist the founder of the The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1869)
• 1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский ( August 14, 1865, St Petersburg - December 9, 1865)
• 1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl ( 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German Mathematician. 1885)
• 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE ( 7 September, 1887 &ndash 9 December, 1964) was a British Poet and critic 1887)
• 1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Wesley Branch Rickey ( December 15 1881 &ndash December 9 1965) was an innovative Major League Baseball executive best known 1884)
• 1967 - Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (b. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Charles Léon Hammes ( May 21 1898 - December 9 1967) was a Luxembourgian Lawyer, judge and the third President of the 1898)
• 1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (b. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (Արտյոմ (Artyom Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան or Անուշավան Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան Артём 1905)
• 1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893-1970 was a Politician from Pakistan. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, in Urdu وزیر اعظم Wazir-e- Azam meaning "Grand Minister", is the Head of Government 1893)
• 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Dr Ralph Johnson Bunche ( August 7, 1903 &ndash December 9, 1971) was an American Political scientist and Diplomat The Nobel Peace Prize ( Swedish, Danish and Nobels fredspris is one of five Nobel Prizes Bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor 1904)
• 1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov (Сергей Тимофеевич Конёнков July 10, 1874 &ndash December 9, 1971) was a famous Russian 1874)
• 1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Louella Parsons ( August 6, 1881 &ndash December 9, 1972) was an American Gossip columnist. 1881)
• 1975 - William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Augustus Wellman (29 February &ndash19 December) was an American Movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award 1896)
• 1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (b. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Servant of God Fulton John Sheen (born Peter John Sheen May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American Archbishop Life is Worth Living was an inspirational American television series which aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1951 to 1955 and then on ABC 1895)
• 1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Daniel J Faulkner ( December 21, 1955 &ndash December 9, 1981) was a Police officer in the American city of 1955)
• 1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Leon Jaworski ( September 19, 1905, in Waco Texas - December 9, 1982) was the Special Prosecutor The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's 1905)
• 1984 - Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Nicholas Dingley, alias Razzle ( December 2, 1960 – December 8, 1984) was the Drummer of Hanoi Rocks from 1982 Hanoi Rocks are a Finnish Glam punk band formed in 1979 whose most successful period came in the early 1980s 1960)
• 1992 - Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (b. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Vincent Gardenia ( January 7 1922 – December 9 1992) was an American award-winning stage, Film, and 1922)
• 1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Robert Dennis "Danny" Blanchflower ( February 10, 1926 – December 9, 1993) was a footballer, football manager 1926)
• 1994 - Garnett Silk, Jamaican reggae singer (b. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Garnett Silk (born Garnett Damoin Smith, April 2 1966, Manchester Jamaica, died December 9 1994, Mandeville Jamaica 1966)
• 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Toni Cade Bambara ( March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995) was an American Author, social activist, and college professor 1939)
• 1995 - Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Douglas Corrigan ( January 22, 1907 &ndash December 9, 1995) was an American Aviator born in Galveston, Texas 1907)
• 1996 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Patricia J "Patty" Donahue ( March 29, 1956 &mdash December 9 1996) was the lead singer of the 1980s New Wave rock group The Waitresses were an experimental New Wave band in the early 1980s from Kent, Ohio, United States. 1956)
• 1996 - Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Mary Leakey ( February 6 1913 &ndash December 9 1996) was a British Archaeologist and Anthropologist, who 1913)
• 1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher (17 April 1909 – 9 December 1996 was a French Centrist politician affiliated first with the Popular Republican Movement 1909)
• 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Elizabeth Shaughnessy Cohen ( February 11, 1948 - December 9, 1998) was a Canadian politician who represented the riding of 1948)
• 1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer (b. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Before Boxing Moore often found himself in trouble as a youngster and was in a reformatory until 1934 1913)
• 2001 - Michael Carver, British soldier (b. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver Baron Carver GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC ( 24 April 1915 - 9 December 1915)
• 2002 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Mary Hansen ( 1 November 1966 &ndash 9 December 2002) was a guitarist and singer with Stereolab. Stereolab are an Alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England 1966)
• 2002 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Ian Hornak (b January 9 1944 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - d December 9 2002 Southampton New York) was an American painter and draughtsman 1944)
• 2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Stan Rice ( November 7 1942 – December 9, 2002) was an American Poet and Artist and husband of writer 1942)
• 2003 - Paul Simon, U. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Paul Martin Simon ( November 29, 1928 &ndash December 9, 2003) was an American politician from Illinois. S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
• 2003 - Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Norm Sloan ( June 25, 1926 – December 9, 2003) was an American College basketball coach 1926)
• 2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " David Brudnoy ( June 5, 1940 &ndash December 9, 2004) was a popular Talk radio host in Boston from 1976 to 2004 1940)
• 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Andrea Absolonová ( December 26, 1976 – December 9, 2004) De Mae appeared in over 80 adult films 1976)
• 2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. György Sándor ( 21 September 1912 &ndash 9 December 2005) was a Hungarian Pianist, friend of Béla Bartók 1912)
• 2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Robert Sheckley ( July 16, 1928 &ndash December 9, 2005) was a Hugo and Nebula nominated American author 1928)
• 2007 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Thore Skogman ( March 9 1931 &ndash December 9 2007) was a Swedish entertainer 1931)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of saints:
  • Saint Leocadia; Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin : optional memorial
  • Peter Fourier, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame
• Peru: Army Day
• Sweden and Finland: Anna's Day. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a Liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more Saints Saint Leocadia (Sainte Locaie Santa Leocadia is a Spanish saint Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474 – May 30, 1548) was an Indigenous Mexican who reported an apparition of the Virgin Peter Fourier ( French: Pierre Fourier) ( November 30, 1565 - December 9, 1640) was a French Saint Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. The Peruvian Army ( Spanish: Ejército del Perú, abbreviated EP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with safeguarding "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. Recognizes everyone named Anna, and marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve. Lutefisk (lutfisk (lʉːtəfɪsk in Southern Norway, in Central and Northern Norway Sweden and the Swedish-speaking areas in Finland Christmas Eve, December 24, is the day before Christmas Day, the celebrated birthday of Jesus.
• Tanzania - Independence Day (of Tanganika from Britain, 1961)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Tanzania ˌtænzəˈniːə officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya An Independence Day is an annual celebration commemorating the Anniversary of a Nation 's assumption of independent Statehood, usually after ceasing Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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