Anniversaries 9 November
Birth
![Mark Akenside photo]()
English poet and physician
1721–1770
![Benjamin Banneker photo]()
free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author a…
1731–1806
![Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster photo]()
British astronomer
1789–1860
![Florence R. Sabin photo]()
American medical scientist
1871–1953
![Muhammad Iqbál photo]()
Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
1877–1938
![Hermann Weyl photo]()
German mathematician
1885–1955
![Jean Monnet photo]()
French political economist regarded by many as a chief arch…
1888–1979
![Erich Auerbach photo]()
German Philologist
1892–1957
![Kay Thompson photo]()
American actress, singer, composer and writer
1909–1998
![Carroll Quigley photo]()
American historian
1910–1977
![Thomas Berry photo]()
American priest
1914–2009
![Hedy Lamarr photo]()
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early techn…
1914–2000
![Spiro Agnew photo]()
39th Vice President of the United States
1918–1996
![Ma Ho-ling photo]()
father of Ma Ying-jeou
1920–2005
![Imre Lakatos photo]()
Hungarian mathematician, philosopher
1921–1974
![Robert Frank photo]()
American photographer and filmmaker
1924–2019
![Anne Sexton photo]()
poet from the United States
1928–1974
![Imre Kertész photo]()
Hungarian writer
1929–2016
![Carl Sagan photo]()
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed…
1934–1996
![Roger McGough photo]()
British writer and poet
1937
![Yvon Chouinard photo]()
American mountain climber
1938
![Sam Savage photo]()
American writer
1940–2019
![Alan Kotok photo]()
American computer scientist
1941–2006
![Marina Warner photo]()
writer and mythographer
1946
![Pete McCarthy photo]()
British travel writer
1951–2004
![Bernard Membe photo]()
Tanzanian politician
1953
![Mick Wallace photo]()
Irish politician and football manager
1955
![Chris Jericho photo]()
American professional wrestler, musician, television host, …
1970
![Alessandro Del Piero photo]()
Italian former professional footballer
1974
![DeWayne Woods photo]()
American gospel musician
1975
![Tina Dabi photo]()
Indian Administrative Service Officer
1993
Death
![Bernardo Dovizi photo]()
Italian cardinal and playwright
1470–1520
![William Lenthall photo]()
English politician, died 1662
1591–1662
![Edward Hazen Parker photo]()
American writer
1823–1896
![George Arnold photo]()
American author and poet
1834–1865
![Henry Cabot Lodge photo]()
American statesman
1850–1924
![Howard Pyle photo]()
American illustrator and author
1853–1911
![Ramsay MacDonald photo]()
British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
1866–1937
![Neville Chamberlain photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1869–1940
![Chaim Weizmann photo]()
Zionist leader, 1st president of Israel
1874–1952
![Ibn Saud photo]()
Founder of Saudi Arabia
1875–1953
![Dorothy Canfield Fisher photo]()
American author and social activist
1879–1958
![Elizabeth of the Trinity photo]()
French Carmelite nun and mystic
1880–1906
![Antonio Porchia photo]()
Italian Argentinian poet
1885–1968
![Vasily Blyukher photo]()
Soviet military commander
1889–1938
![Charles de Gaulle photo]()
eighteenth President of the French Republic
1890–1970
![John N. Mitchell photo]()
former US attorney general, Watergate felon
1913–1988
![Dylan Thomas photo]()
Welsh poet and writer
1914–1953
![K. R. Narayanan photo]()
9th Vice President and the 10th President of India
1920–2005
![Mario Merz photo]()
Italian artist, painter and sculptor
1925–2003
![Miriam Makeba photo]()
South African singer and civil rights activist
1932–2008
![Bao Tong photo]()
Policy secretary of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang
1932–2022
![Noel Ignatiev photo]()
American historian
1940–2019
![Ellen Willis photo]()
writer, activist
1941–2006
![Ed Bradley photo]()
News correspondent
1941–2006
![Myles Munroe photo]()
Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
1954–2014
![Iris Chang photo]()
American historian
1968–2004
