December December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1608 - John Milton, english poet, writer (d. 1674)
- 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
- 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, author (d. 1908)
- 1868 - Fritz Haber, german chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.
- 1869 - Hannes Kolehmainen, finnish Athlete.
- 1871 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)
- 1876 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1940)
- 1878 - Grand Duke Michael Romanov, Russian royalty (d. 1918)
- 1882 - Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
- 1885 - Grete Wiesenthal, dancer and choreographer (d. 1970)
- 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, frozen food pioneer (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner
- 1897 - Hermione Gingold, actress (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, author (d. 1937)
- 1901 - Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and narrator (d. 1938)
- 1901 - Jean Mermoz, french aviator.
- 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, writer, member of the "Hollywood Ten" (d. 1976)
- 1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, computer pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, actor
- 1911 - Broderick Crawford, actor (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Tip O'Neill, former speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, opera singer
- 1916 - Kirk Douglas, actor and film producer
- 1922 - Redd Foxx, comedian, actor (d. 1991)
- 1927 - Pierre Henry, composer
- 1928 - Dick Van Patten, actor
- 1929 - John Cassavetes, actor and film director (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
- 1930 - Buck Henry, actor, comedian, writer, director, producer
- 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Dame Judi Dench actress
- 1934 - Junior Wells, musician (d. 1998)
- 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football star
- 1941 - Beau Bridges, actor
- 1941 - Dan Hicks, musician
- 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1943 - Rick Danko, musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
- 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician and president of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party).
- 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1947 - Steve Owens, football player
- 1950 - Joan Armatrading, singer
- 1951 - Dominique Dropsy, french soccer player
- 1952 - Michael Dorn, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine)
- 1953 - John Malkovich, actor
- 1957 - Donny Osmond, entertainer
- 1967 - Joshua Bell, violinist
- 1968 - Kurt Angle, Olympic gold medalist in amateur wrestling, now WWE professional wrestler
- 1968 - Dave Harold, English snooker player
- 1969 - Jakob Dylan, musician
- 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, french soccer player, world champion in 1998.
- 1972 - Tre Cool, musician (Green Day)
- 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, french tennis player.
- 1981 - Diya Mirza , Indian actress.
- 1987 - Asa Eisenhardt, United States Ultimate Dousche Bag
Deaths
- 1565 - Pope Pius IV
- 1669 - Pope Clement IX
- 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, pioneer of Negro League baseball
- 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, engineer, physicist
- 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, poet
- 1965 - Branch Rickey, baseball commissioner
- 1971 - Ralph Bunche, diplomat
- 1972 - Louella Parsons, gossip columnist
- 1996 - Mary Leakey, archeologist, anthropologist
- 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, author (b. 1939)
- 1998 - Archie Moore, boxer
- 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen
- 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (75 years)
Holidays and observances
Recorded this date
- 1904 "Killarney" (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe)
- Richard Jose
- 1908 "Annie Laurie" (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott)
- Corinne Morgan
- 1909 "Old Black Joe" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
- Fisk University Jubilee Quartet with
- 1919 "Colonel Bogey - March" (m. Kenneth J. Alford)
- Columbia Band
- 1919 "O" (w. Byron Gay m. Arnold Johnson)
- Jack Kaufman with Ted Lewis & his Band
- 1920 "Broadway Rose" (w. Eugene West m. Martin Fried & Otis Spencer)
- Raderman's Jazz Orchestra
- 1920 "Home Again Blues" (w.m. Harry Akst & Irving Berlin)
- Raderman's Jazz Orchestra
- 1926 "Mandy" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
- Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1926 "Hello! Bluebird" (w.m. Cliff Friend)
- Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1927 "Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella" (w. Irving Kahal & Francis Wheeler m. Sammy Fain)
- Irving Kaufman with Sam Lanin & his Orchestra
- 1927 "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" (w.m. Louis Armstrong & Lillian Hardin Armstrong)
- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
- 1929 "If Love Were All" (w.m. Noel Coward)
- Frank Luther with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
- 1929 "You've Got That Thing" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Frank Luther with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
- 1929 "You Do Something To Me" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Frank Luther with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
- 1931 "Ooh! That Kiss!" (w. Mort Dixon & Joe Young m. Harry Warren)
- Tony Starr with The Dorsey Brothers & their Orchestra
- 1932 "It's Within Your Power" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
- Bing Crosby
- 1932 "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing" (w. Robert Hargreaves & Stanley J. Damerell m. Tolchard Evans & H. Tilsley)
- Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & the Monseigneur band
- 1932 "Darkness On The Delta" (w. Marty Symes & Al Neiburg m. Jerry Livingston)
- Chick Bullock with & his Levee Loungers
- 1932 "Underneath The Harlem Moon" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
- Katherine Handy with Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
- 1932 "Pu-leeze! Mr Hemingway" (w. Walter Kent & Milton Drake m. Abner Silver)
- Ann Suter
- 1932 "New King Porter Stomp"
- Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
- 1932 "Try A Little Tenderness" (w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly)
- Chick Endor & Charlie Farrell with Ben Selvin & his orchestra
- 1932 "Street Of Dreams" (w. Sam M. Lewis m. Victor Young)
- Bing Crosby
- 1935 "A Beautiful Lady In Blue" (w. Sam M. Lewis m. J. Fred Coots)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1935 "With All My Heart" (w. Gus Kahn m. Jimmy McHugh)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1935 "Somebody Ought To Be Told" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1935 "I Built A Dream One Day" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1935 "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" (w. "Red" Hodgson m. Edward Farley & Michael Riley)
- Edythe Wright with Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven
- 1937 "La Estrellita" (m. Maurice Ponce)
- Xavier Cugat & his Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
- 1938 "I'm Falling In Love With Someone" (w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert)
- Bing Crosby & Frances Langford with Victor Young & his Concert Orchestra
- 1938 "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
- Bing Crosby & Frances Langford with Victor Young & his Concert Orchestra
- 1940 "I Hear A Rhapsody" (w.m. George Fragos, Jack Baker & Dick Gasparre)
- Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey
- 1940 "I Understand" (w. Kim Gannon m. Mabel Wayne)
- Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
- 1940 "High On A Windy Hill" (w.m. Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer)
- Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
- 1940 "Where The River Shannon Flows" (w.m. James J. Russell)
- Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
- 1940 "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?" (w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr)
- Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
- 1940 "De Camptown Races" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
- Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
- 1940 "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
- Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
- 1941 "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" (w. June Hershey m. Don Swander)
- Perry Como with Ted Weems & his Orchestra
- 1944 "Can't Help Singing" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jerome Kern)
- Deanna Durbin & Robert Paige with O/Edgar Fairchild
- 1946 "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" (w. Paul Francis Webster m. Hoagy Carmichael)
- Hoagy Carmichael & Chickadees with O/Lou Bring
- 1947 "Haunted Heart" (w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz)
- Perry Como with O/Russ Case
- 1947 "There Must Be A Way" (w.m. Sammy Gallop & David Saxon)
- Perry Como with O/Russ Case and His Orchestra
- 1949 "I Can Dream, Can't I?" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain)
- Alan Dean with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
- 1949 "So Ends My Search For A Dream"
- Alan Dean with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
- 1949 "Third Man Theme" (m. Anton Karas)
- Guy Lombardo & his Orchestra
- 1949 "The Wedding Samba" (w.m. Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small & Joseph Liebowitz)
- Kenny Gardner with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
- 1952 "I Do, I Do, I Do" (w.m. Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
- Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
- 1952 "What Would You Do (If You Were In My Place)"
- Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
- 1952 "Lovely Weather For Ducks" (w.m. Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
- Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
- 1952 "Haven't Got A Worry" (w.m. Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
- Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
- 1953 "Young At Heart" (w. Carolyn Leigh m. Johnny Richards)
- Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1953 "I Could Have Told You" (w. Carl Sigman m. James Van Heusen)
- Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1953 "Rain (Falling From The Skies)" (w.m. George Finlay & Robert Mellin)
- Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1954 "How Important Can It Be?" (w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss)
- Joni James w. Ray Charles Singers with O/David Terry
- 1955 "Young And Foolish" (w. Arnold B. Horwitt m. Albert Hague)
- Eve Boswell with O/Reg Owen
- 1956 "Glitter And Be Gay" (w. Richard Wilbut m. Leonard Bernstein)
- Barbara Cook
- 1958 "Just In Time" (w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Jule Styne)
- Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
- 1958 "Something's Gotta Give" (w.m. Johnny Mercer)
- Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
- 1958 "The Song Is You" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern)
- Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
- 1966 "Detroit City" (w.m. ]]Mel Tillis]] & Danny Dill)
- Tom Jones with O/Charles Blackwell
December 8 - December 10 - November 9 - January 9 -- listing of all days
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da:9. december
de:9. Dezember
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eo:9-a de decembro
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