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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9th of October 0768 | EVENT | Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. |
| 9th of October 1238 | EVENT | James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia. |
| 9th of October 1264 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711. |
| 9th of October 1446 | EVENT | The hangul alphabet is published in Korea. |
| 9th of October 1514 | EVENT | Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor. |
| 9th of October 1558 | EVENT | Merida is founded in Venezuela. |
| 9th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 9th of October 1595 | EVENT | The Spanish army captures Cambrai. |
| 9th of October 1604 | EVENT | Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. |
| 9th of October 1635 | EVENT | Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. |
| 9th of October 1701 | EVENT | The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. |
| 9th of October 1760 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin. |
| 9th of October 1771 | EVENT | The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland. |
| 9th of October 1776 | EVENT | Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California. |
| 9th of October 1799 | EVENT | Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth ?1,200,000. |
| 9th of October 1804 | EVENT | Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. |
| 9th of October 1806 | EVENT | Prussia declares war on France. |
| 9th of October 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. |
| 9th of October 1820 | EVENT | Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. |
| 9th of October 1824 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica. |
| 9th of October 1831 | EVENT | Capo d'Istria is assassinated. |
| 9th of October 1834 | EVENT | Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland. |
| 9th of October 1835 | EVENT | The Royal College, Colombo in Sri Lanka is established with the name Hillstreet Academy. |
| 9th of October 1845 | EVENT | The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 9th of October 1854 | EVENT | Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins. |
| 9th of October 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island : Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens. |
| 9th of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook : Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia. |
| 9th of October 1873 | EVENT | A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. |
| 9th of October 1874 | EVENT | General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne. |
| 9th of October 1888 | EVENT | The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. |
| 9th of October 1907 | EVENT | Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated. |
| 9th of October 1911 | EVENT | An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire |
| 9th of October 1913 | EVENT | Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic. |
| 9th of October 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Siege of Antwerp : Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. |
| 9th of October 1919 | EVENT | Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series. |
| 9th of October 1934 | EVENT | Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. |
| 9th of October 1936 | EVENT | Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California. |
| 9th of October 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Britain : During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb. |
| 9th of October 1941 | EVENT | A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. |
| 9th of October 1942 | EVENT | Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy. |
| 9th of October 1942 | EVENT | The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment. |
| 9th of October 1945 | EVENT | Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients |
| 9th of October 1962 | EVENT | Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm. |
| 9th of October 1963 | EVENT | In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it. |
| 9th of October 1966 | EVENT | Vietnam War:Binh Tai massacre |
| 9th of October 1967 | EVENT | A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. |
| 9th of October 1969 | EVENT | In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24. |
| 9th of October 1970 | EVENT | The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. |
| 9th of October 1981 | EVENT | Abolition of capital punishment in France. |
| 9th of October 1983 | EVENT | Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast. |
| 9th of October 1986 | EVENT | The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. |
| 9th of October 1989 | EVENT | An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. |
| 9th of October 1989 | EVENT | In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms. |
| 9th of October 1991 | EVENT | Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| 9th of October 1992 | EVENT | A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu |
| 9th of October 1995 | EVENT | An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. |
| 9th of October 1999 | EVENT | The last flight of the SR-71. |
| 9th of October 2001 | EVENT | Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack. |
| 9th of October 2006 | EVENT | North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. |
| 9th of October 2009 | EVENT | First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. |
| 9th of October 1201 | BIRTHDAY | Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274) |
| 9th of October 1221 | BIRTHDAY | Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290) |
| 9th of October 1261 | BIRTHDAY | King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325) |
| 9th of October 1328 | BIRTHDAY | King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) |
| 9th of October 1581 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638) |
| 9th of October 1585 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Schutz, German composer (d. 1672) |
| 9th of October 1586 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) |
| 9th of October 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) |
| 9th of October 1757 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles X of France (d. 1836) |
| 9th of October 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) |
| 9th of October 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (d. 1921) |
| 9th of October 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist (d. 1902) |
| 9th of October 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905) |
| 9th of October 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) |
| 9th of October 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935) |
| 9th of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Didak Buntic, Croatian monk and scholar (d. 1922) |
| 9th of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1940) |
| 9th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939) |
| 9th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916) |
| 9th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944) |
| 9th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947) |
| 9th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) |
| 9th of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980) |
| 9th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938) |
| 9th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944) |
| 9th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941) |
| 9th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Andric, Serbian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) |
| 9th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945) |
| 9th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982) |
| 9th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976) |
| 9th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998) |
| 9th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979) |
| 9th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001) |
| 9th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001) |
| 9th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982) |
| 9th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Wessel, German Nazi and songwriter (d. 1930) |
| 9th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Werner von Haeften, German officer and Hitler assassination conspirator (d. 1944) |
| 9th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975) |
| 9th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961) |
| 9th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000) |
| 9th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006) |
| 9th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford M. Hardin, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010) |
| 9th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000) |
| 9th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007) |
| 9th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Belva Plain, American novelist (d. 2010) |
| 9th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Bj?rneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976) |
| 9th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002) |
| 9th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Fyvush Finkel, American actor |
| 9th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997) |
| 9th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958) |
| 9th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Daniele Delorme, French actress |
| 9th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer |
| 9th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Homer Smith, American football coach (d. 2011) |
| 9th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Booth, British actor |
| 9th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate |
| 9th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957) |
| 9th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Ker Conway, Australian-born American author |
| 9th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family |
| 9th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Blessed, English actor |
| 9th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician |
| 9th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Humphrey, American politician |
| 9th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980) |
| 9th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pepitone, American baseball player |
| 9th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Lamb, American television executive |
| 9th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Lott, American politician |
| 9th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Chucho Valdes, Cuban musician |
| 9th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008) |
| 9th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Kirby, American teenage behavior researcher |
| 9th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Peters, American cartoonist |
| 9th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002) |
| 9th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle) |
| 9th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996) |
| 9th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tansu Ciller, Prime Minister of Turkey |
| 9th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007) |
| 9th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | France Gall, French singer |
| 9th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Zappone, American broadcaster and journalist |
| 9th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jackson Browne, American musician |
| 9th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 9th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Downing, American baseball player |
| 9th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist |
| 9th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne |
| 9th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Shalhoub, American actor |
| 9th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues) |
| 9th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Bakula, American actor |
| 9th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host |
| 9th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician |
| 9th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer |
| 9th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Don Garber, American sports commissioner |
| 9th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Pare, American actor |
| 9th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry) |
| 9th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Singletary, American football player |
| 9th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cobley, English-born Scottish writer |
| 9th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist |
| 9th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Maddie Blaustein, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 9th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gyula Hajszan, Hungarian footballer |
| 9th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Bailey, British racing driver |
| 9th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Onokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna |
| 9th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer |
| 9th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director |
| 9th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Ralston, Canadian actor |
| 9th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jimbo Fisher, American college football coach |
| 9th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | David Cameron, British Prime Minister |
| 9th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Ostlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur |
| 9th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player |
| 9th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005) |
| 9th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | P.J. Harvey, English musician |
| 9th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater |
| 9th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Giles Martin, British record producer |
| 9th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Anderson, American basketball player |
| 9th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jablonsky, American music composer |
| 9th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Park Sang-min, South Korean actor |
| 9th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Butler Harner, American actor |
| 9th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Annika Sorenstam, Swedish golfer |
| 9th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994) |
| 9th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004) |
| 9th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Jones, American filmmaker |
| 9th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Manna, American professional wrestler |
| 9th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor |
| 9th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Audie England, American actress |
| 9th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence) |
| 9th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Daniels, American actress |
| 9th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Burns, American actor and musician |
| 9th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody) |
| 9th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Pavon, Honduran footballer |
| 9th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor |
| 9th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rale Micic, Serbian musician |
| 9th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Viduka, Australian footballer |
| 9th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Lennon, American musician |
| 9th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Swardson, American actor |
| 9th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Roberts, American baseball player |
| 9th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife) |
| 9th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Dixon, American basketball player |
| 9th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rossa, Indonesian singer |
| 9th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Routh, American actor |
| 9th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver |
| 9th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer |
| 9th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Greenwald, American musician (Phantom Planet) |
| 9th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer |
| 9th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 9th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor |
| 9th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Darius Miles, American basketball player |
| 9th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Mendonca, Angolan footballer |
| 9th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shi Jun, Chinese footballer |
| 9th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player |
| 9th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver |
| 9th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Grammer, American actress |
| 9th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter |
| 9th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ghetto, British musician |
| 9th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Laure Manaudou, French swimmer |
| 9th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Walker, American basketball player |
| 9th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler James Williams, American actor |
| 9th of October 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Lahbati, Filipina television actress |
| 9th of October 1047 | DEATH | Pope Clement II (Born 1005) |
| 9th of October 1253 | DEATH | Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop |
| 9th of October 1273 | DEATH | Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany |
| 9th of October 1390 | DEATH | King John I of Castile (Born 1358) |
| 9th of October 1555 | DEATH | Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (Born 1493) |
| 9th of October 1562 | DEATH | Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (Born 1523) |
| 9th of October 1569 | DEATH | Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (Born 1533) |
| 9th of October 1581 | DEATH | Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (Born 1526) |
| 9th of October 1597 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (Born 1537) |
| 9th of October 1691 | DEATH | William Sacheverell, English statesman (Born 1638) |
| 9th of October 1709 | DEATH | Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (Born 1640) |
| 9th of October 1729 | DEATH | Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (Born 1654) |
| 9th of October 1793 | DEATH | Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (Born 1718) |
| 9th of October 1797 | DEATH | Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (Born 1720) |
| 9th of October 1806 | DEATH | Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (Born 1731) |
| 9th of October 1808 | DEATH | John Claiborne, U.S. politician (Born 1777) |
| 9th of October 1831 | DEATH | John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (Born 1776) |
| 9th of October 1873 | DEATH | George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (Born 1785) |
| 9th of October 1897 | DEATH | Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Born 1818) |
| 9th of October 1900 | DEATH | Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (Born 1843) |
| 9th of October 1924 | DEATH | Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (Born 1873) |
| 9th of October 1934 | DEATH | Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (Born 1862) |
| 9th of October 1934 | DEATH | King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (Born 1888) |
| 9th of October 1937 | DEATH | Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (Born 1868) |
| 9th of October 1940 | DEATH | Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (Born 1865). |
| 9th of October 1941 | DEATH | Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (Born 1900) |
| 9th of October 1943 | DEATH | Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1865) |
| 9th of October 1950 | DEATH | George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (Born 1895) |
| 9th of October 1953 | DEATH | Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (Born 1887) |
| 9th of October 1955 | DEATH | Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (Born 1875) |
| 9th of October 1956 | DEATH | Marie Doro, American actress (Born 1882) |
| 9th of October 1958 | DEATH | Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (Born 1876) |
| 9th of October 1962 | DEATH | Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (Born 1885) |
| 9th of October 1967 | DEATH | Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1897) |
| 9th of October 1967 | DEATH | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (Born 1928) |
| 9th of October 1967 | DEATH | Andre Maurois, French author (Born 1885) |
| 9th of October 1968 | DEATH | Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (Born 1929) |
| 9th of October 1972 | DEATH | Miriam Hopkins, American actress (Born 1902) |
| 9th of October 1974 | DEATH | Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman (Born 1908) |
| 9th of October 1976 | DEATH | Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (Born 1894) |
| 9th of October 1978 | DEATH | Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (Born 1929) |
| 9th of October 1985 | DEATH | Emilio Garrastazu Medici, president of Brazil (Born 1905) |
| 9th of October 1987 | DEATH | Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (Born 1908) |
| 9th of October 1987 | DEATH | William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1892) |
| 9th of October 1987 | DEATH | Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (Born 1903) |
| 9th of October 1987 | DEATH | Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (Born 1899) |
| 9th of October 1988 | DEATH | Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine (Born 1902) |
| 9th of October 1989 | DEATH | Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (Born 1940) |
| 9th of October 1995 | DEATH | Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1903) |
| 9th of October 1996 | DEATH | Walter Kerr, American theater critic (Born 1913) |
| 9th of October 1999 | DEATH | Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (Born 1923) |
| 9th of October 1999 | DEATH | Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (Born 1914) |
| 9th of October 2000 | DEATH | David Dukes, American actor (Born 1945) |
| 9th of October 2000 | DEATH | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1918) |
| 9th of October 2001 | DEATH | Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (Born 1927) |
| 9th of October 2001 | DEATH | Dagmar, American television personality (Born 1921) |
| 9th of October 2002 | DEATH | Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (Born 1924) |
| 9th of October 2002 | DEATH | Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer sentenced to death (Born 1956) |
| 9th of October 2002 | DEATH | Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (Born 1931) |
| 9th of October 2005 | DEATH | Stella Stratigou, Greek actress (Born 1931) |
| 9th of October 2005 | DEATH | Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (Born 1913) |
| 9th of October 2006 | DEATH | Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (Born 1924) |
| 9th of October 2006 | DEATH | Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (Born 1978) |
| 9th of October 2007 | DEATH | Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (Born 1922) |
| 9th of October 2008 | DEATH | Gidget Gein, American musician (Born 1969) |