Anniversaries 9 January

Birth

Robert-François Damiens2

French domestic servant and attempted assassin 1715–1757

Thomas Warton5

English literary historian, critic, poet 1728–1790

William Robert Spencer1

British poet 1770–1834

William Johnson Cory2

English educator and poet 1823–1892

Francisco Perea4

Union Army officer 1830–1913

Carrie Chapman Catt5

American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947) 1859–1947

John Flanagan115

Irish-American hammer thrower 1873–1938

Robert Michels1

German sociologist 1876–1936

Bernard Groethuysen20

French literary historian, translator and writer 1880–1946

Lascelles Abercrombie3

Poet, academic, literary critic 1881–1938

Karel Čapek51

Czech writer 1890–1938

Kurt Tucholský8

German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer 1890–1935

Lucian Truscott4

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1895–1965

Karl Löwith4

German philosopher 1897–1973

Richard Halliburton5

American writer 1900–1939

Josemaría Escrivá19

Spanish theologian 1902–1975

Simone de Beauvoir152

French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po… 1908–1986

Gypsy Rose Lee3

American burlesque performer, actress, author 1911–1970

Richard Nixon89

37th President of the United States of America 1913–1994

Vic Mizzy4

American composer 1916–2009

Claud William Wright2

British paleontologist 1917–2010

David Holbrook1

British writer 1923–2011

Mortimer Chambers1

American historian 1927

Brian Friel2

Irish dramatist, author and theatre director 1929–2015

Algis Budrys44

American writer 1931–2008

Bob Casey Sr.2

American politician (1932-2000) 1932–2000

Wilbur Smith2

British novelist 1933

Anne Rivers Siddons2

novelist from the United States 1936–2019

Merrill McPeak6

United States Air Force general 1936

Joseph Epstein1

American essayist, short story writer and editor 1937–1944

Stuart Woods1

American novelist 1938

Joan Baez23

American singer 1941

Jimmy Page2

British guitarist of Led Zeppelin 1944

Michel Barnier7

French politician 1951

Javad Alizadeh13

cartoonist, journalist and humorist 1953

Morris Gleitzman3

Australian writer 1953

Danny Morrison1

British writer and politician 1953

Philippa Gregory47

English novelist 1954

Mark Rathbun6

American whistleblower 1957

Dave Matthews55

American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967

Джоуи Адамс1

1968

Lara Fabian1

Belgo-Canadian singer 1970

MF Doom13

hip hop artist from America 1971

Zoya Akhtar4

Indian film director 1974

Tom Bissell4

American journalist 1974

Chad Johnson5

American football player, wide receiver 1978

Jake Shields2

American mixed martial artist 1979

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge3

Wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge 1982

Omar Musa1

Australian singer 1984

Paolo Nutini2

Scottish musician 1987

Death

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle13

French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment 1657–1757

Elizabeth Benger1

British writer 1775–1827

Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz2

German politician and publisher 1797–1860

Napoleon III2

French emperor, president, and member of the House of Bonap… 1808–1873

Alexander Herzen9

Russian author 1812–1870

Houston Stewart Chamberlain21

English author of books on political philosophy 1855–1927

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare3

British orientalist 1856–1924

Katherine Mansfield43

New Zealand author 1888–1923

R. G. Collingwood16

British historian and philosopher 1889–1943

Karl Mannheim28

Hungarian sociologist 1893–1947

Arnold Tustin18

British engineer 1899–1994

Norberto Bobbio2

Italian legal scholar 1909–2004

W. Cleon Skousen68

ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-b… 1913–2006

W. S. Graham1

Scottish poet 1918–1986

James M. Buchanan5

American economist 1919–2013

Walter M. Miller, Jr.37

American fiction writer 1923–1996

Zygmunt Bauman16

Polish philosopher and sociologist 1925–2017

Angus Scrimm1

American actor 1926–2016

Amiri Baraka6

African-American writer 1934–2014

Peter Cook45

British architect 1937–1995

Mike Resnick1

American writer 1942–2020

Rynn Berry2

American historian of vegetarianism 1945–2014

Northern Calloway2

American actor 1948–1990

Felix Gonzalez-Torres1

American artist 1957–1996