December 9 - Births

Births

• 1447 – Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
• 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
• 1561 – Sir Edwin Sandys, English colonial settler (d. 1629)
• 1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
• 1579 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
• 1594 – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
• 1608 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
• 1610 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
• 1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
• 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
• 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian (d. 1768)
• 1721 – Peter Pelham, English-born American musician and composer (d. 1805)
• 1728 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (d. 1804)
• 1745 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian musician and composer (d. 1818)
• 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
• 1751 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1819)
• 1787 – John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
• 1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician and patriote (d. 1838)
• 1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
• 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
• 1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
• 1845 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (d. 1908)
• 1847 – George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)
• 1850 – Emma Abbott, American singer (d. 1891)
• 1861 – Hélène Smith, French psychic (d. 1929)
• 1867 – Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek writer (d. 1951)
• 1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
• 1870 – Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician (d. 1960)
• 1871 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
• 1876 – Pauline Whittier, American golfer (d. 1946)
• 1882 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Alexander Papagos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)
• 1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman (d. 1956)
• 1887 – Tim Moore, American actor and comedian (d. 1958)
• 1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
• 1891 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
• 1895 – Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish political leader (d. 1989)
• 1895 – Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
• 1897 – Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
• 1900 – Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
• 1901 – Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
• 1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
• 1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
• 1912 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor
• 1916 – Jerome Beatty Jr., American author (d. 2002)
• 1917 – James Angleton, American CIA official (d. 1987)
• 1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
• 1918 – Joyce Redman, Irish actress
• 1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
• 1922 – Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Dina Merrill, American actress
• 1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
• 1927 – Pierre Henry, French composer
• 1928 – André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
• 1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor
• 1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia
• 1930 – Buck Henry, American actor
• 1931 – William Reynolds, American actor
• 1931 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
• 1932 – Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter
• 1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant, American writer
• 1933 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host (d. 2001)
• 1933 – Monique Miller, Canadian actress
• 1933 – Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Dame Judi Dench, English actress
• 1934 – Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
• 1936 – Ben Pon, Jr., Dutch vintner and athlete
• 1937 – Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1938 – David Houston, American singer (d. 1993)
• 1938 – Deacon Jones, American football player
• 1940 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican musician (d. 2005)
• 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, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Joanna Trollope, British writer
• 1944 – Neil Innes, English singer and songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles)
• 1944 – Tadashi Irie, Japanese crime boss
• 1944 – Ki Longfellow, American novelist
• 1944 – Bob O'Connor, American politician (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
• 1945 – Michael Nouri, American actor
• 1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
• 1946 – Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
• 1947 – Tom Daschle, American politician
• 1947 – Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
• 1948 – Dennis Dunaway, American musician (Alice Cooper)
• 1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director
• 1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer
• 1949 – Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
• 1950 – Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
• 1952 – Michael Dorn, American actor
• 1953 – World B. Free, American basketball player
• 1953 – John Malkovich, American actor
• 1953 – Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer
• 1954 – Henk ten Cate, Dutch football player and manager
• 1954 – Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
• 1954 – Phil Bryant, American politician
• 1955 – Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
• 1955 – Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
• 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
• 1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
• 1957 – Peter O’Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer
• 1957 – Steve Taylor, American singer, songwriter and record producer.
• 1958 – Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
• 1958 – Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
• 1959 – John Martin Scripps, English murderer (d. 1996)
• 1960 – Terry Moran, American TV reporter
• 1960 – Stefen Fangmeier, American director
• 1960 – Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician and editor
• 1960 – Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
• 1961 – David Anthony Higgins, American actor
• 1961 – Joe Lando, American actor
• 1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
• 1963 – Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
• 1963 – Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
• 1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German actor, TV presenter and comedian
• 1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German TV presenter
• 1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
• 1965 – Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
• 1965 – Vecepia Towery, American reality TV contestant
• 1966 – Michael Foster, American drummer (FireHouse)
• 1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
• 1966 – Montserrat Gil Torné, Andorran politician
• 1966 – Dave Harold, English snooker player
• 1966 – Toby Huss, American actor
• 1966 – Dana Murzyn, Canadian hockey player
• 1966 – Spencer Rochfort, Canadian-American actor
• 1966 – Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, Guatemalan footballer
• 1966 – Mateo Romero, Native-American painter
• 1966 – Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician
• 1966 – Kadyrbek Sarbayev, Kyrgyzstan foreign envoy
• 1966 – Shane Scott, American producer and director
• 1966 – Martin Taylor, English football coach
• 1966 – Natee Thongsookkaew, Thailand footballer
• 1967 – Jason Dozzell, English footballer
• 1967 – Joshua Bell, American violinist
• 1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
• 1968 – Kurt Angle, American wrestler
• 1968 – Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
• 1968 – Brent Price, American basketball player
• 1969 – Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
• 1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
• 1969 – Allison Smith, American actress
• 1969 – Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
• 1970 – Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer and singer
• 1970 – Lance Krall, American comedian
• 1971 – Petr Nedvěd, Czech ice hockey player
• 1971 – Geoff Barrow, English musician (Portishead)
• 1972 – Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
• 1972 – Tre Cool, German-American drummer (Green Day)
• 1972 – Backhouse Mike, American composer and producer
• 1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player
• 1973 – Fabio Artico, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Bárbara Padilla, Mexican-American soprano
• 1974 –, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Canibus, American rapper
• 1974 – Wendy Dillinger, American footballer and coach
• 1974 – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,Pakistani singer
• 1976 – Chris Booker, American baseball player
• 1977 – Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
• 1977 – Shayne Graham, American football player
• 1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Gaston Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
• 1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
• 1979 – Chen Hao, Chinese actress
• 1979 – Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
• 1979 – Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
• 1980 – Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
• 1980 – Simon Helberg, American actor
• 1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player
• 1981 – Dia Mirza, Indian actress
• 1981 – Stephanie Lynn Spane, Canadian singer.model,actress
• 1982 – Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
• 1982 – Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
• 1982 – Ryan Grant, American football player
• 1982 – Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
• 1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
• 1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Leon Hall, American football player
• 1985 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
• 1987 – Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
• 1987 – Mat Latos, American baseball player
• 1988 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1989 – Lindsey Evans, American model
• 1990 – LaFee, German singer
• 1991 – Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
• 1991 – Choi Minho South Korean rap artist (Shinee)
• 1993 – Laura Smulders, Dutch racing cyclist
• 1995 – McKayla Maroney, American Gymnast
• 2001 – Ronnie Paris, American child abuse victim (d. 2005)