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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9th of December 0730 | EVENT | Battle of Marj Ardabil: the Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah |
| 9th of December 1425 | EVENT | The Catholic University of Leuven is founded. |
| 9th of December 1531 | EVENT | The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City. |
| 9th of December 1793 | EVENT | New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. |
| 9th of December 1824 | EVENT | Patriot forces led by General Antonio Jose de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence. |
| 9th of December 1835 | EVENT | The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas. |
| 9th of December 1851 | EVENT | The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec. |
| 9th of December 1856 | EVENT | The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces. |
| 9th of December 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress. |
| 9th of December 1872 | EVENT | In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state. |
| 9th of December 1875 | EVENT | The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is founded. |
| 9th of December 1888 | EVENT | Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department. |
| 9th of December 1897 | EVENT | Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris. |
| 9th of December 1905 | EVENT | In France, the law separating church and state is passed. |
| 9th of December 1917 | EVENT | In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem. |
| 9th of December 1922 | EVENT | Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland. |
| 9th of December 1931 | EVENT | The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic. |
| 9th of December 1935 | EVENT | Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder. |
| 9th of December 1937 | EVENT | Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing : Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing. |
| 9th of December 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Compass : British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. |
| 9th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. |
| 9th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. |
| 9th of December 1946 | EVENT | The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" begin with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation. |
| 9th of December 1950 | EVENT | Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. |
| 9th of December 1953 | EVENT | Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. |
| 9th of December 1956 | EVENT | Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board. |
| 9th of December 1958 | EVENT | The John Birch Society is founded in the United States. |
| 9th of December 1960 | EVENT | The first episode of the world's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom. |
| 9th of December 1961 | EVENT | The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. |
| 9th of December 1961 | EVENT | Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. |
| 9th of December 1962 | EVENT | The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona. |
| 9th of December 1965 | EVENT | The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object. |
| 9th of December 1966 | EVENT | Barbados joins the United Nations. |
| 9th of December 1968 | EVENT | NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco. |
| 9th of December 1971 | EVENT | The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations. |
| 9th of December 1979 | EVENT | The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. |
| 9th of December 1987 | EVENT | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. |
| 9th of December 1988 | EVENT | The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened. |
| 9th of December 2000 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount. |
| 9th of December 2003 | EVENT | A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more. |
| 9th of December 2008 | EVENT | The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency. |
| 9th of December 1447 | BIRTHDAY | Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487) |
| 9th of December 1508 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555) |
| 9th of December 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629) |
| 9th of December 1571 | BIRTHDAY | Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635) |
| 9th of December 1579 | BIRTHDAY | Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639) |
| 9th of December 1594 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632) |
| 9th of December 1608 | BIRTHDAY | John Milton, English poet (d. 1674) |
| 9th of December 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680) |
| 9th of December 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723) |
| 9th of December 1667 | BIRTHDAY | William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752) |
| 9th of December 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian (d. 1768) |
| 9th of December 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822) |
| 9th of December 1751 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) |
| 9th of December 1787 | BIRTHDAY | John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865) |
| 9th of December 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Olivier Chenier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838) |
| 9th of December 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915) |
| 9th of December 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921) |
| 9th of December 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (Uncle Remus)(d. 1908) |
| 9th of December 1847 | BIRTHDAY | George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912) |
| 9th of December 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891) |
| 9th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Smith, French psychic (d. 1929) |
| 9th of December 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934) |
| 9th of December 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943) |
| 9th of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940) |
| 9th of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquin Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949) |
| 9th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Papagos, Greek General and Prime Minister (d. 1955) |
| 9th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950) |
| 9th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956) |
| 9th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958) |
| 9th of December 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966) |
| 9th of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarusian poet (d. 1917) |
| 9th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Conchita Supervia, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936) |
| 9th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Ibarruri, Spanish political leader (d. 1989) |
| 9th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987) |
| 9th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979) |
| 9th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937) |
| 9th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977) |
| 9th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 9th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936) |
| 9th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Odon von Horvath, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938) |
| 9th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985) |
| 9th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 9th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976) |
| 9th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992) |
| 9th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000) |
| 9th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 9th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976) |
| 9th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ryuzo Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007) |
| 9th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994) |
| 9th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 9th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006) |
| 9th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Douglas, American actor |
| 9th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Beatty Jr., American author (d. 2002) |
| 9th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987) |
| 9th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) |
| 9th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Redman, Irish actress |
| 9th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 9th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic |
| 9th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991) |
| 9th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dina Merrill, American actress |
| 9th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999) |
| 9th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Kresadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995) |
| 9th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Henry, French composer |
| 9th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Van Patten, American actor |
| 9th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Milhoux, Belgian racing driver |
| 9th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989) |
| 9th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia |
| 9th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Henry, American actor |
| 9th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | William Reynolds, American actor |
| 9th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor |
| 9th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter |
| 9th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008) |
| 9th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Monique Miller, French Canadian actress |
| 9th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ashleigh Brilliant, American writer (Pot-Shots) |
| 9th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001) |
| 9th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Judi Dench, English actress |
| 9th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998) |
| 9th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 9th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Deacon Jones, American football player |
| 9th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Houston, American country singer (d. 1993) |
| 9th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Clancy Eccles, Jamaican Reggae Musician (d. 2005) |
| 9th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Beau Bridges, American actor |
| 9th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hicks, American musician |
| 9th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Butkus, American football player |
| 9th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997) |
| 9th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008) |
| 9th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Innes, English singer/songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles) |
| 9th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ki Longfellow, American novelist |
| 9th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bob O'Connor, American politician (d. 2006) |
| 9th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Matti Mantyla, Finnish actor |
| 9th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Nouri, American actor |
| 9th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician |
| 9th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor |
| 9th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Daschle, American politician |
| 9th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jaak Joeruut, Soviet-born Estonian politician |
| 9th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Dunaway, American musician (Alice Cooper) |
| 9th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director |
| 9th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor |
| 9th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kite, American golfer |
| 9th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer |
| 9th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician |
| 9th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Dorn, American actor |
| 9th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | World B. Free, American basketball player |
| 9th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Malkovich, American actor |
| 9th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian |
| 9th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician |
| 9th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Donny Osmond, American singer and actor |
| 9th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Peter O'Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and comopser |
| 9th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents) |
| 9th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House) |
| 9th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Moran, American TV reporter |
| 9th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor |
| 9th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Stefen Fangmeier, American film director |
| 9th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player |
| 9th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Anthony Higgins, American actor |
| 9th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Lando, American actor |
| 9th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Felicity Huffman, American actress |
| 9th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Masako, Crown Princess of Japan |
| 9th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer |
| 9th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hape Kerkeling, German actor, TV presenter and comedian |
| 9th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein) |
| 9th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes B. Kerner, German TV presenter |
| 9th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Ausanio, American baseball player |
| 9th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant, Winner of Survivor: Marquesas |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Foster, drummer for rock band FireHouse |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Montserrat Gil Torne, Andorran politician |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Huss, American actor |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Harold, English professional snooker player |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Murzyn, Canadian hockey player |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mateo Romero, Native American painter |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, former soccer player |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kadyrbek Sarbayev, foreign minister |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Rochfort, Canadian-American actor |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Natee Thongsookkaew, Thailand footballer |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Scott, American director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, musician |
| 9th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Taylor, footballer coach |
| 9th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Bell, American violinist |
| 9th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer |
| 9th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Dozzell, English footballer |
| 9th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Angle, American wrestler |
| 9th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Price, American basketball player |
| 9th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer) |
| 9th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer |
| 9th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers) |
| 9th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Smith, American actress |
| 9th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor |
| 9th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Krall, American comedian |
| 9th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer, and singer |
| 9th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Petr Nedved, Czech ice hockey player |
| 9th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day) |
| 9th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player |
| 9th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Reiko Aylesworth, American actress |
| 9th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Artico, Italian footballer |
| 9th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Aloisio, Brazilian footballer |
| 9th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,Pakistani singer |
| 9th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Canibus, American rapper |
| 9th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Dillinger, American footballer and coach |
| 9th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Booker, American baseball player |
| 9th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Saskia Garel, Canadian actress |
| 9th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter |
| 9th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shayne Graham, American football player |
| 9th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Gaudio, Argentine tennis player |
| 9th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Metcalfe, American actor |
| 9th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chen Hao, Chinese actress |
| 9th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer |
| 9th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer |
| 9th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist |
| 9th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Helberg, American actor |
| 9th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dia Mirza, Indian actress |
| 9th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mardy Fish, American tennis player |
| 9th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist |
| 9th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Grant, American football player |
| 9th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete |
| 9th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer |
| 9th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jermaine Beckford, English footballer |
| 9th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Hall, American football player |
| 9th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mat Latos, American baseball player |
| 9th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey Evans, American glamor model |
| 9th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | LaFee, German singer |
| 9th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este |
| 9th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Minho South Korean rap artist (SHINee) and TV host |
| 9th of December 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Paris, American child abuse victim (d. 2005) |
| 9th of December 1165 | DEATH | King Malcolm IV of Scotland (Born 1141) |
| 9th of December 1437 | DEATH | Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1368) |
| 9th of December 1544 | DEATH | Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (Born 1491) |
| 9th of December 1565 | DEATH | Pope Pius IV (Born 1499) |
| 9th of December 1603 | DEATH | William Watson, English conspirator (Born 1559) |
| 9th of December 1625 | DEATH | Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (Born 1547) |
| 9th of December 1636 | DEATH | Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (Born 1566) |
| 9th of December 1640 | DEATH | Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (Born 1565) |
| 9th of December 1641 | DEATH | Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (Born 1599) |
| 9th of December 1669 | DEATH | Pope Clement IX (Born 1600) |
| 9th of December 1674 | DEATH | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (Born 1609) |
| 9th of December 1706 | DEATH | King Peter II of Portugal (Born 1648) |
| 9th of December 1718 | DEATH | Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (Born 1650) |
| 9th of December 1793 | DEATH | Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (Born 1749) |
| 9th of December 1798 | DEATH | Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (Born 1729) |
| 9th of December 1830 | DEATH | Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (Born 1757) |
| 9th of December 1854 | DEATH | Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (Born 1799) |
| 9th of December 1858 | DEATH | Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (Born 1804) |
| 9th of December 1887 | DEATH | Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader |
| 9th of December 1894 | DEATH | Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (Born 1821) |
| 9th of December 1906 | DEATH | Ferdinand Brunetiere, French writer and critic (Born 1849) |
| 9th of December 1916 | DEATH | Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (Born 1867) |
| 9th of December 1924 | DEATH | Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher (Born 1854) |
| 9th of December 1930 | DEATH | Rube Foster, American baseball player (Born 1879) |
| 9th of December 1935 | DEATH | Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor (Born 1886) |
| 9th of December 1937 | DEATH | Nils Gustaf Dalen, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1869) |
| 9th of December 1941 | DEATH | Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (Born 1865) |
| 9th of December 1943 | DEATH | Georges Dufrenoy, French post-impressionnist painter (Born 1870) |
| 9th of December 1952 | DEATH | Abe Manley, American baseball team owner (Born 1885) |
| 9th of December 1955 | DEATH | Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (Born 1885) |
| 9th of December 1964 | DEATH | Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (Born 1887) |
| 9th of December 1965 | DEATH | Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (Born 1884) |
| 9th of December 1967 | DEATH | Charles Leon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer (Born 1898) |
| 9th of December 1970 | DEATH | Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (Born 1905) |
| 9th of December 1970 | DEATH | Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician (Born 1893) |
| 9th of December 1971 | DEATH | Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1904) |
| 9th of December 1971 | DEATH | Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (Born 1874) |
| 9th of December 1972 | DEATH | Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (Born 1881) |
| 9th of December 1975 | DEATH | William A. Wellman, American movie director (Born 1896) |
| 9th of December 1979 | DEATH | Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Born 1895) |
| 9th of December 1981 | DEATH | Daniel Faulkner, American police officer (Born 1955) |
| 9th of December 1982 | DEATH | Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (Born 1905) |
| 9th of December 1984 | DEATH | Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (Born 1960) |
| 9th of December 1992 | DEATH | Vincent Gardenia, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 9th of December 1993 | DEATH | Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (Born 1926) |
| 9th of December 1994 | DEATH | Garnett Silk, Jamaican reggae singer (Born 1966) |
| 9th of December 1995 | DEATH | Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (Born 1907) |
| 9th of December 1995 | DEATH | Toni Cade Bambara, American author (Born 1939) |
| 9th of December 1996 | DEATH | Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (Born 1913) |
| 9th of December 1996 | DEATH | Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (Born 1956) |
| 9th of December 1996 | DEATH | Alain Poher, French politician (Born 1909) |
| 9th of December 1998 | DEATH | Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (Born 1948) |
| 9th of December 1998 | DEATH | Archie Moore, American boxer (Born 1913) |
| 9th of December 2001 | DEATH | Michael Carver, British soldier (Born 1915) |
| 9th of December 2002 | DEATH | Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (Born 1966) |
| 9th of December 2002 | DEATH | Stan Rice, American painter and poet (Born 1942) |
| 9th of December 2002 | DEATH | Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (Born 1944) |
| 9th of December 2003 | DEATH | Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (Born 1926) |
| 9th of December 2003 | DEATH | Paul Simon, American politician (Born 1928) |
| 9th of December 2004 | DEATH | David Brudnoy, American radio personality (Born 1940) |
| 9th of December 2004 | DEATH | Lea De Mae, Czech actress (Born 1976) |
| 9th of December 2005 | DEATH | Robert Sheckley, American author (Born 1928) |
| 9th of December 2005 | DEATH | Gyorgy Sandor, Hungarian pianist (Born 1912) |
| 9th of December 2006 | DEATH | Koula Agagiotou, Greek actress (Born 1915) |
| 9th of December 2007 | DEATH | Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (Born 1931) |
| 9th of December 2007 | DEATH | Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (Born 1918) |
| 9th of December 2008 | DEATH | Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (Born 1972) |
| 9th of December 2008 | DEATH | Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1939) |
| 9th of December 2009 | DEATH | Gene Barry, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 9th of December 2010 | DEATH | Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (Born 1924) |
| 9th of December 2010 | DEATH | James Moody, American jazz musician (Born 1925) |
| 9th of December 2010 | DEATH | John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (Born 1938) |