December 9
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Art and culture
- 1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
- 1946 - The "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
Births
- 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
- 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
- 1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
- 1928 - André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
- 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
- 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor
- 1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
- 1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
- 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Dame Judi Dench, British actress
- 1934 - Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
- 1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
- 1938 - David Houston, American country music singer (d. 1993)
- 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
- 1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
- 1942 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
- 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1943 - Pit Martin, National Hockey League player
- 1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
- 1944 - Neil Innes, British singerBonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
- 1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
- 1945 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
- 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
- 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
- 1948 - Dennis Dunaway, American musician
- 1949 - Tom Kite, American golfer
- 1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born British singer
- 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
- 1952 - Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
- 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
- 1953 - Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
- 1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
- 1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
- 1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitar player (The Adolescents)
- 1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
- 1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
- 1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
- 1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
- 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
- 1963 - Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
- 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
- 1965 - Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
- 1965 - Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
- 1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
- 1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
- 1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
- 1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
- 1968 - Kurt Angle, American wrestler
- 1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
- 1968 - Dave Harold, English snooker player
- 1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
- 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- 1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
- 1971 - Petr Nedved, National Hockey League player
- 1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
- 1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
- 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
- 1974 - Canibus, American rapper
- 1975 - Dino Morea, Indian actor
- 1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player
- 1977 - Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
- 1977 - Imogen Heap, British singer and songwriter
- 1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
- 1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
- 1980 - Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
- 1981 - Mardy Fish, American tennis player
- 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
- 1982 - Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
- 1983 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
- 1983 - Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
- 1990 - LaFee, German singer
Deaths
- 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
- 1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
- 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
- 1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
- 1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
- 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
- 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
- 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
- 1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
- 1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
- 1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
- 1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
- 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
- 1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
- 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
- 1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757)
- 1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
- 1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
- 1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
- 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
- 1916 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
- 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. 1879)
- 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- 1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
- 1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
- 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887)
- 1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball commissioner (b. 1884)
- 1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
- 1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
- 1975 - William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
- 1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (b. 1895)
- 1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
- 1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)
- 1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
- 1990 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born professional wrestler and actor (b. 1907)
- 1992 - Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1922)
- 1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
- 1996 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
- 1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
- 1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Michael Carver, British Lord Field Marshall and Baron and strong speaker against the Trident program.
- 2002 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
- 2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
- 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
- 2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
- 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
- 2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
- 2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
Notes
Juan Atkins
John Willie
Donald Byrd
John Cassavetes
John Milton
Ödön von Horváth
John Malkovich
Salome (opera)
Berenice Abbott
Pierre Henry
Buck Henry
A Love Supreme
Edith Sitwell
Ennio de Concini
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