Anniversaries 9 November

Birth

Mark Akenside17

English poet and physician 1721–1770

Benjamin Banneker4

free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author a… 1731–1806

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster1

British astronomer 1789–1860

Paul Sérusier6

French painter 1864–1927

Florence R. Sabin1

American medical scientist 1871–1953

Muhammad Iqbál28

Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement 1877–1938

Hermann Weyl28

German mathematician 1885–1955

Ed Wynn1

American actor 1886–1966

Jean Monnet5

French political economist regarded by many as a chief arch… 1888–1979

Erich Auerbach7

German Philologist 1892–1957

Dietrich von Choltitz12

German general 1894–1966

Viktor Brack2

SS officer 1904–1948

Kay Thompson1

American actress, singer, composer and writer 1909–1998

Carroll Quigley79

American historian 1910–1977

Thomas Berry5

American priest 1914–2009

Hedy Lamarr5

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early techn… 1914–2000

Spiro Agnew4

39th Vice President of the United States 1918–1996

Ma Ho-ling1

father of Ma Ying-jeou 1920–2005

Imre Lakatos6

Hungarian mathematician, philosopher 1921–1974

Robert Frank5

American photographer and filmmaker 1924–2019

Anne Sexton120

poet from the United States 1928–1974

Imre Kertész61

Hungarian writer 1929–2016

Carl Sagan365

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996

Roger McGough9

British writer and poet 1937

Yvon Chouinard4

American mountain climber 1938

Sam Savage2

American writer 1940–2019

Alan Kotok4

American computer scientist 1941–2006

Marina Warner5

writer and mythographer 1946

Kate Clinton7

American comedian 1947

Dermot Healy11

Irish writer 1947–2014

Pete McCarthy1

British travel writer 1951–2004

Paul Hoffman2

Dutch writer 1953

Bernard Membe5

Tanzanian politician 1953

Janet Fitch86

American writer 1955

Mick Wallace1

Irish politician and football manager 1955

Volodymyr Viytyshyn1

Polish archbishop 1959

Jackie Kay5

Poet and novelist 1961

Chris Jericho5

American professional wrestler, musician, television host, … 1970

William Rivers Pitt2

writer 1971

Danielle Trussoni3

Memoirist, novelist 1973

Alessandro Del Piero12

Italian former professional footballer 1974

DeWayne Woods1

American gospel musician 1975

Tina Dabi2

Indian Administrative Service Officer 1993

Death

Jami13

Persian poet 1414–1492

Frederick IV of Naples2

King of Naples 1451–1504

Bernardo Dovizi13

Italian cardinal and playwright 1470–1520

William Lenthall2

English politician, died 1662 1591–1662

Ivan Krylov3

Russian writer 1769–1844

Edward Hazen Parker1

American writer 1823–1896

George Arnold2

American author and poet 1834–1865

Henry Cabot Lodge5

American statesman 1850–1924

Howard Pyle4

American illustrator and author 1853–1911

Ramsay MacDonald27

British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom 1866–1937

Neville Chamberlain58

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1869–1940

Chaim Weizmann2

Zionist leader, 1st president of Israel 1874–1952

Ibn Saud2

Founder of Saudi Arabia 1875–1953

Dorothy Canfield Fisher3

American author and social activist 1879–1958

Elizabeth of the Trinity4

French Carmelite nun and mystic 1880–1906

Guillaume Apollinaire28

French poet 1880–1918

Antonio Porchia276

Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Vasily Blyukher4

Soviet military commander 1889–1938

Charles de Gaulle46

eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890–1970

John N. Mitchell3

former US attorney general, Watergate felon 1913–1988

Dylan Thomas50

Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953

K. R. Narayanan40

9th Vice President and the 10th President of India 1920–2005

Dorothy Dunnett8

British writer 1923–2001

Mario Merz1

Italian artist, painter and sculptor 1925–2003

Miriam Makeba19

South African singer and civil rights activist 1932–2008

Bao Tong1

Policy secretary of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang 1932–2022

Noel Ignatiev1

American historian 1940–2019

Ellen Willis43

writer, activist 1941–2006

Ed Bradley29

News correspondent 1941–2006

Myles Munroe24

Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister 1954–2014

Iris Chang3

American historian 1968–2004