January January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years).
Events
Births
19th century
1800-1850
1851-1899
1851-1875
- 1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer
- 1851 - Luis Coloma, Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian
- 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (d. 1921)
- 1856 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest, poet (d. 1912)
- 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet
- 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer
- 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer
- 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters
- 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian
- 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
- 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher
- 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer
- 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
- 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge
- 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Jewish poet, translator
- 1875 - Gertrude Whitney, sculptor (d. 1942)
1876-1899
- 1876 - Hans Bethge, writer
- 1879 - John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist (d. 1958)
- 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet, critic (d. 1938)
- 1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian, writer
- 1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
- 1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, writer, satirist, social critic, (d. 1935)
- 1891 - August Gailit, Estonian, writer
- 1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
- 1894 - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter, graphic artist
- 1897 - Luis Gianneo, composer
- 1897 - Karl Löwith, philosopher, (d. 1973)
- 1898 - Gracie Fields, English music hall/vaudeville performer, (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
20th century
1900-1919
- 1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer
- 1901 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie) (d. 1973)
- 1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (New York Metropolitan Opera)
- 1902 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish religious author (d. 1975)
- 1904 - George Balanchine, dancer, choreographer, ballet producer (d. 1983) (O.S.)
- 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
- 1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
- 1911 - Stafford William Somerfield, British newspaper editor
- 1912 - Ralph Tubbs, architect
- 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1913 - Lavad 'Dr Hepcat' Durst, musician
- 1913 - Peter John Norton, diplomat, artist
- 1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, jazz drummer, composer
- 1914 ? - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque actress (d. 1970)
- 1915 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)
- 1915 - Les Paul, guitarist, inventor
- 1916 - Vic Mizzy, orchestra leader
- 1917 - Herbert Lom, actor
1920-1939
- 1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor
- 1921 - Seymour Barab, composer
- 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American novelist (d. 1995)
- 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, biochemist (1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1924 - Julián B Coco, guitarist, bassist
- 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (d. 1989)
- 1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist
- 1928 - Judith Krantz, author
- 1928 - Domenico Modugno, musician (d. 1994)
- 1929 - Heiner Muller, dramatist (d. 1995)
- 1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
- 1931 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author
- 1931 - Geoffrey Wragg, British reorganizer
- 1933 - Sonia Garmers, author
- 1934 - Bart Starr, American football star
- 1935 - Bob Denver, actor
- 1935 - Dick Enberg, sportscaster
- 1935 - Kenneth 'Buddy' Scott, blues guitarist, singer
- 1936 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher
- 1937 - K Schlesinger, writer
- 1938 - Aad Kosto, theologian, actor, assistant Secretary of Justice of the Netherlands
- 1940 - Jimmy Boyd, actor, singer
- 1940 - Barbara Buczek, composer (d. 1993)
- 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
- 1941 - Joan Baez, American folk music singer, activist
- 1941 - Susannah York, British actress
- 1943 - Dick Yount, rock musician
- 1943 - Kenneth Kelley, American singer
- 1943 - Rob Hoeke, pianist, singer
- 1944 - Scott Engel, singer
- 1944 - Jimmy Page, rock musician, guitarist ("Led Zeppelin")
- 1945 - Frank J. Biondi Jr., president of HBO
- 1945 - Harun Farocki, actor, director
- 1946 - Leo Gullotta, actor
- 1948 - Paul King, musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
1950-1999
- 1950 - David Johansen (Buster Poindexter),singer
- 1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
- 1951 - Crystal Gayle, country music singer
- 1951 - Rosalyn Kind, , singer
- 1952 - Eveline L Herfkens, Dutch MP (PvdA)
- 1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
- 1954 - Lance Hoppens, musician
- 1955 - J. K. Simmons, US Actor
- 1956 - David Smith, cricket player
- 1956 - Kimberly Beck, American actress
- 1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca, attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
- 1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
- 1959 - Rigoberta Menchú - Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1962 - Phil Lewis, musician
- 1963 - Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
- 1965 - Carin Garbarra, football player
- 1965 - Cindy Brooks, rower
- 1965 - Joely Richardson, actress
- 1967 - Dave Matthews, singer, musician
- 1968 - Jimmy Adams, cricket player
- 1970 - Humberto Terant,Venezuelan Businessman
- 1970 - Andrew Leipus, physiotherapist
- 1974 - Craig Wishart, cricketer
- 1978 - AJ McLean, singer ("Backstreet Boys")
- 1980 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer
21st century
Deaths
upto 18th century
- 1283 - Wu Tian Xiang Chinese patriot, executed in Beijing.
- 1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg
- 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany and consort queen of France
- 1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
- 1677 - Aernout van der Neer, cartoonist, landscape painter
- 1679 - Werner Fabricius, composer
- 1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
- 1798 - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea, Spanish officer
- 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
19th century
- 1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
- 1828 - Pieter Hoen, Dutch journalist, patriot
- 1848 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer (b. 1750)
- 1849 - Jan Kops, agriculturist, vicar
- 1853 - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet, interpreter
- 1854 - Filippo Traetta, composer
- 1863 - Ferdinand Huber, composer
- 1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
- 1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- 1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
- 1879 - Don Joaquin BF Espartero, Field Marshal, viceroy of Navarre
- 1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer
- 1893 - Mohara, slave trader deluxe
- 1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of the American System of Watch Manufacturing
20th century
1900-1949
- 1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
- 1902 - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, lawyer, Interior Minister of Belgium
- 1904 - Alfred Richard, cricketer
- 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Yiddish stage performer
- 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
- 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
- 1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
- 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
- 1927 - Houston S Chamberlain, race theorist
- 1929 - Heiner Müller, writer
- 1930 - Edward W Buck, editor (Ladies Home Journal)
- 1931 - Claude Anet, French writer
- 1936 - John Gilbert, actor (b. 1899)
- 1939 - Johann Strauss III, conductor
- 1941 - Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter
- 1943 - Robin Collingwood, philosopher
- 1946 - Countee Cullen, poet
- 1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
- 1947 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor
- 1949 - Amilcare Zanella, composer
1950-1989
- 1953 - Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken)
- 1957 - Mary Carr Moore, composer
- 1958 - Paul Fechter, German writer, historian
- 1959 - Paul Malengreau, composer
- 1961 - Emily Green Balch, American author, Nobel laureate
- 1962 - LeRoy B Shield, pianist, composer
- 1966 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer
- 1968 - Louis-François-Marie Aubert, composer
- 1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer
- 1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
- 1972 - Ted Shawn, dancer
- 1975 - John Slater, actor
- 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, actor
- 1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer
- 1978 - Eddie Gilbert, cricketer
- 1979 - Avery Claflin, composer
- 1979 - Sara Carter, singer, guitarist (b. 1898)
- 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
- 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, director
- 1985 - Don Brennan, cricketer
- 1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman, philantropist (b. 1879)
1990s
- 1992 - Steve Brodie, actor
- 1992 - William JF Naughton, playwright
- 1993 - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1904)
- 1994 - Silas Hogan, blues singer, guitarist,
- 1995 - Peter Cook, actor. satirist, writer, comedian (b. 1937)
- 1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
- 1996 - Mary Nadia Wadia, actress
- 1996 - Kurt Schmucker, Minister of Economy of Germany
- 1996 - Michael Lynn Synar, politician
- 1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland
- 1997 - Jesse White, actor
- 1997 - Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar
- 1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1981)
21st century
Holidays and observances
Recorded this date
- 1903 "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
- Harry Macdonough & John H. Bieling
- 1906 "I Love A Lassie" (w. Harry Lauder & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder) Peter Dawson (as Hector Grant)
- 1917 "Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" (w. Dave Radford m. Richard Whiting) Sam Ash
- 1922 "At Santa Barbara" (Russell) Peter Dawson
- 1922 "Cheerily, Yeo Ho!" (Phillips) Peter Dawson
- 1922 "When The Lights Go Rolling Round" (Blake & Ireland) Peter Dawson
- 1923 "Evergreen Eve" (Parkes) Grosvenor Dance Orchestra
- 1923 "Hot Lips" (w.m. Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis) Grosvenor Dance Orchestra
- 1928 "There'll Come A Time" (Wingy Manone, Miff Mole) Frankie Trumbauer
- 1931 "You're Lucky To Me" (w. Andy Razaf m. Eubie Blake) Al Bowlly with Roy Fox & his Band
- 1931 "Thank Your Father" (w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson) Al Bowlly with Roy Fox & his Band
- 1933 "Try A Little Tenderness" (w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly) Bing Crosby
- 1933 "I'm Playing With Fire" (w.m. Irving Berlin) Bing Crosby
- 1933 "Muss I Denn Zum Städtele Hinaus" (folksong) Comedian Harmonists with p. Emil Gerhardt
- 1933 "Mood Indigo" (w.m. Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard & Irving Mills) Boswell Sisters with Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
- 1934 "Louisiana Hayride" (w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz) Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & his Band
- 1935 "The Little Things You Used To Do" (w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren) Helen Morgan with O/Bakaleinikoff
- 1935 "I See Two Lovers" (w. Mort Dixon m. Allie Wrubel) Helen Morgan with O/Bakaleinikoff
- 1935 "When I Grow Too Old To Dream" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg) Kenny Sargent with Casa Loma Orchestra
- 1939 "Deep Purple" (w. Mitchell Parish m. Peter De Rose) Ginny Simms with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
- 1940 "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers) Hildegarde with Ray Sinatra
- 1940 "Friendship" (w.m. Cole Porter) Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Ish Kabibble & Jack Martin with Kay Kyser
- 1941 "Until Tomorrow" (w.m. Sammy Kaye) 3 Kadets with Sammy Kaye
- 1942 "Stage Coach" (m. Eric Winstone) Joe Loss & his Orchestra
- 1942 "The Thing-ummy Bob" (Heneker, Thompson) Arthur Askey
- 1942 "Let's Not Talk About Love" (w.m. Cole Porter) Danny Kaye with O/Johnny Green
- 1945 "'S Wonderful" (w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin) Artie Shaw
- 1947 "Always" (w.m. Irving Berlin) Frank Sinatra with O/Axel Stordahl
- 1947 "I Concentrate On You" (w.m. Cole Porter) Frank Sinatra with O/Axel Stordahl
- 1947 "My Love For You" (w. Sid Wayne m. Abner Silver) Frank Sinatra with O/Axel Stordahl
- 1947 "Bright Was The Day" (w.m. Noël Coward) Noël Coward
- 1947 "Uncle Harry" (w.m. Noël Coward) Noël Coward
- 1947 "His Excellency Regrets" (w.m. Noël Coward) Noël Coward
- 1947 "This Is A Changing World" (w.m. Noël Coward) Noël Coward
- 1947 "I Tipped My Hat And Slowly Rode Away" (w.m. Larry Marks & Dick Charles) Bob Eberly & The Song Spinners with Frank Froeba Trio
- 1947 "The Rickety Rickshaw Man" (w.m. Ervin Drake) Beryl Templeman, Bobby Joy, Jack O'Hagan & The Cubs with Roy Fox & his Band
- 1948 "A Tree In The Meadow" (w.m. Billy Reid) Dorothy Squires with O/Billy Reid
- 1950 "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" (w.m. Hank Williams) Hank Williams
- 1950 "I Said My Pajamas" (w.m. Edward Pola & George Wyle) Harry Babbitt & Martha Tilton
- 1956 "I Thought About You" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen) Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1956 "You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me" (w.m. Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal & Pierre Norman) Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1956 "You Make Me Feel So Young" (w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow) Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1956 "Memories Of You" (w. Andy Razaf m. Eubie Blake) Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
- 1962 "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" (w.m. Cindy Walker) Roy Orbison
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