Anniversaries 9 December
Birth
English epic poet
1608–1674
English writer and poet
1617–1658
British lawyer and Tory politician
1731–1806
german philosopher
1828–1888
painter from the Netherlands
1838–1865
English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer
1847–1912
Journalist, children's writer
1848–1908
Hungarian psychologist and musicologist
1878–1955
General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1879–1953
Bengali feminist writer and social worker
1880–1932
German inventor of pilates
1883–1967
Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and comm…
1895–1989
Soviet and Polish military commander
1896–1968
English actress
1897–1987
Austro-Hungarian writer
1901–1938
British politician
1902–1982
American screenwriter and novelist
1905–1976
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
1906–1992
American politician
1912–1994
American writer
1915–2000
British statistician, cryptographer
1916–2009
American stage and film actor
1916–2020
chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954…
1917–1987
American comedian and actor
1922–1991
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
1925–1995
American physicist
1926–1999
American writer
1929–2009
American author and cartoonist
1933
English film, stage and television actress
1934
former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of …
1935
American writer
1937–2015
American children's writer
1937
Estonian philosopher of chemistry
1938–2015
British comic songwriter
1944–2019
British singer-songwriter
1950
Luxembourgian politician
1954
Curaçao politician
1958–2013
American television director, writer, producer, storyboard …
1960
British politician, MP of the Green Party for Brighton Pavi…
1960
United States Senator from New York
1966
singer and songwriter
1969
Drummer, punk rock musician
1972
Argentine tennis player
1978
Death
Persian scholar and polymath
973–1048
Monarch from the House Luxemburg, 1387 to 1437 King of Hung…
1368–1437
English politician
1609–1674
English satirical poet and translator
1653–1683
Danish scientist
1757–1830
American writer
1784–1842
American politician
1795–1857
British judge and rose breeder
1816–1899
Japanese novelist
1867–1916
Bengali feminist writer and social worker
1880–1932
American baseball player and coach
1881–1965
American journalist
1887–1948
American sportswriter
1892–1981
Catholic bishop and television presenter
1895–1979
American linguist
1901–1988
African American communist
1913–1997
American furniture designer
1916–2016
Brazilian writer
1920–1977
English writer, broadcaster and astronomer
1923–2012
American pianist and writer on music
1927–2012
American anthropologist
1927–2019
American writer
1928–2005
American author and historian
1933–2018
American heir to the Du Pont family fortune, ornothologist,…
1938–2010
author, activist, professor
1939–1995
Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political fi…
1945–2009