Anniversaries 9 December
Birth
![John Milton photo]()
English epic poet
1608–1674
![Richard Lovelace photo]()
English writer and poet
1617–1658
![Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow photo]()
British lawyer and Tory politician
1731–1806
![Joseph Dietzgen photo]()
german philosopher
1828–1888
![Gerard Bilders photo]()
painter from the Netherlands
1838–1865
![George Grossmith photo]()
English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer
1847–1912
![Joel Chandler Harris photo]()
Journalist, children's writer
1848–1908
![Géza Révész photo]()
Hungarian psychologist and musicologist
1878–1955
![Joseph Stalin photo]()
General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1879–1953
![Begum Rokeya photo]()
Bengali feminist writer and social worker
1880–1932
![Joseph Pilates photo]()
German inventor of pilates
1883–1967
![Dolores Ibárruri photo]()
Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and comm…
1895–1989
![Konstantin Rokossovsky photo]()
Soviet and Polish military commander
1896–1968
![Hermione Gingold photo]()
English actress
1897–1987
![Ödön von Horváth photo]()
Austro-Hungarian writer
1901–1938
![Rab Butler photo]()
British politician
1902–1982
![Dalton Trumbo photo]()
American screenwriter and novelist
1905–1976
![Grace Hopper photo]()
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
1906–1992
![Tip O'Neill photo]()
American politician
1912–1994
![Eloise Jarvis McGraw photo]()
American writer
1915–2000
![I. J. Good photo]()
British statistician, cryptographer
1916–2009
![Kirk Douglas photo]()
American stage and film actor
1916–2020
![James Jesus Angleton photo]()
chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954…
1917–1987
![Redd Foxx photo]()
American comedian and actor
1922–1991
![Ernest Gellner photo]()
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
1925–1995
![Henry Way Kendall photo]()
American physicist
1926–1999
![Sarah E. Wright photo]()
American writer
1929–2009
![Ashleigh Brilliant photo]()
American author and cartoonist
1933
![Judi Dench photo]()
English film, stage and television actress
1934
![Cao Gangchuan photo]()
former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of …
1935
![Bertrice Small photo]()
American writer
1937–2015
![Mary Downing Hahn photo]()
American children's writer
1937
![Rein Vihalemm photo]()
Estonian philosopher of chemistry
1938–2015
![Neil Innes photo]()
British comic songwriter
1944–2019
![Joan Armatrading photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1950
![Jean-Claude Juncker photo]()
Luxembourgian politician
1954
![Helmin Wiels photo]()
Curaçao politician
1958–2013
![Jeff "Swampy" Marsh photo]()
American television director, writer, producer, storyboard …
1960
![Caroline Lucas photo]()
British politician, MP of the Green Party for Brighton Pavi…
1960
![Kirsten Gillibrand photo]()
United States Senator from New York
1966
![Jakob Dylan photo]()
singer and songwriter
1969
![Tré Cool photo]()
Drummer, punk rock musician
1972
![Gastón Gaudio photo]()
Argentine tennis player
1978
Death
![Al-Biruni photo]()
Persian scholar and polymath
973–1048
![Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor photo]()
Monarch from the House Luxemburg, 1387 to 1437 King of Hung…
1368–1437
![Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon photo]()
English politician
1609–1674
![John Oldham (poet) photo]()
English satirical poet and translator
1653–1683
![Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher photo]()
Danish scientist
1757–1830
![Samuel Woodworth photo]()
American writer
1784–1842
![John P. Gaines photo]()
American politician
1795–1857
![James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance photo]()
British judge and rose breeder
1816–1899
![Natsume Soseki photo]()
Japanese novelist
1867–1916
![Begum Rokeya photo]()
Bengali feminist writer and social worker
1880–1932
![Branch Rickey photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1881–1965
![Robert Quillen photo]()
American journalist
1887–1948
![John Kieran photo]()
American sportswriter
1892–1981
![Fulton J. Sheen photo]()
Catholic bishop and television presenter
1895–1979
![Henri Peyre photo]()
American linguist
1901–1988
![Angelo Herndon photo]()
African American communist
1913–1997
![Jens Risom photo]()
American furniture designer
1916–2016
![Clarice Lispector photo]()
Brazilian writer
1920–1977
![Patrick Moore photo]()
English writer, broadcaster and astronomer
1923–2012
![Charles Rosen photo]()
American pianist and writer on music
1927–2012
![June Nash photo]()
American anthropologist
1927–2019
![Robert Sheckley photo]()
American writer
1928–2005
![William Blum photo]()
American author and historian
1933–2018
![John du Pont photo]()
American heir to the Du Pont family fortune, ornothologist,…
1938–2010
![Toni Cade Bambara photo]()
author, activist, professor
1939–1995
![Luiz Carlos Alborghetti photo]()
Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political fi…
1945–2009
