On this day: 9 January
Events, births and deaths on 9 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Rick Harris
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Angus Scrimm
100 years ago1926
- Births · George Modelski
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 24
- 1431(Julian date)Trial of Joan of Arc — Trial and execution conducted by a pro-English church court overseen by English commanders at Rouen
- 1788Connecticut — state of the United States of America
- 1797Siege of Kehl — part of the Rhine Campaign of 1796 during the War of the First Coalition
- 18571857 Fort Tejon earthquake — 1857 earthquake in California, United States
- 1900SS Lazio — football section of the sports club based in Rome, Lazio, Italy
- 1917Battle of Rafa — 1917 third and final battle of the recapture of the Sinai Peninsula by British forces during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of WWI
- 1917
- 1923autogyro — rotorcraft with rotor unpowered in flight
- 1927Laurier Palace Theatre fire — 1927 cinema fire in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1945Battle of Luzon — major battle in the Philippines Campaign (1944–1945) against Empire of Japan
- 1959Vega de Tera disaster — 1959 dam failure in Spain
- 19781978 Qom protest — part of the Iranian Revolution
- 1992Republika Srpska — political-administrative entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1996Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis — 1996 hostage crisis during the First Chechen War
- 1997Comair Flight 3272 — flight and crash in 1997
- 2003TANS Perú Flight 222 — aircraft crashed in 2003
- 2005Comprehensive Peace Agreement — 2005 peace accord between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan
- 20052005 Palestinian presidential election — general election held in the Palestinian National Authority
- 2011Iran Air Flight 277 — passenger flight which crashed near Urmia Airport, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- 2014Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant explosion — Chemical plant explosion in Japan
- 2015Porte de Vincennes siege — 2015 Islamist terrorist attack in Paris
- 20152015 Mozambique funeral beer poisoning — mass poisoning in Mozambique
- 2021Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 — scheduled domestic passenger flight in Indonesia, lost on 9 January 2021
- 20222022 Taichung legislative by-election — election in Taiwan
Births · 60
- 1554(Julian date)Gregory XV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623 (1554–1623)
- 1590Simon Vouet — French painter (1590-1649)
- 1624Empress Meishō — empress of Japan (1624-1696)
- 1835Iwasaki Yatarō — Japanese industrialist; founder of Mitsubishi (1835–1885)
- 1854Jeanette Jerome — American-born British mother of Winston Churchill (1854–1921)
- 1859Carrie Chapman Catt — American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
- 1868Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen — Danish chemist
- 1873John Flanagan — Irish-American hammer thrower
- 1878John B. Watson — American psychologist (1878
- 1881Giovanni Papini — Italian writer (1881-1956)
- 1890Karel Čapek — Czech writer (1890–1938)
- 1890Kurt Tucholsky — Jewish-German journalist, satirist and writer (1890–1935)
- 1902Josemaría Escrivá — Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
- 1908Simone de Beauvoir — French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
- 1909Anthony Mamo — Maltese chief judge and first President of the republic (1909-2008)
- 1913Richard Nixon — president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
- 1914Kenny Clarke — American jazz drummer (1914–1985)
- 1920Clive Dunn — British actor (1920–2012)
- 1921Ágnes Keleti — Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2025)
- 1922Har Gobind Khorana — Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
- 1922Ahmed Sékou Touré — President of Guinea (1922-1984)
- 1924Sergei Parajanov — Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990)
- 1925Lee Van Cleef — American actor (1925–1989)
- 1928Domenico Modugno — Italian singer, actor and politician (1928–1994)
- 1929Heiner Müller — German writer, poet, and theatre director (1929–1995)
Deaths · 60
- 827Emperor Jingzong of Tang — emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 1283(Julian date)Wen Tianxiang — Chinese politician of the Song Dynasty
- 1499John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg — Elector of Brandenburg (1455–1499)
- 1511(Julian date)Dimitrios Chalkokondyles — Greek academic
- 1514(Julian date)Anne of Brittany — Duchess of Brittany and twice Queen of France (1477-1514)
- 1529(Julian date)Wang Yangming — Chinese philosopher and general (1472–1529)
- 1534
- 1571Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon — French admiral
- 1757Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle — French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
- 1799Maria Gaetana Agnesi — Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)
- 1800Jean-Étienne Championnet — French general (1762-1800)
- 1833Adrien-Marie Legendre — French mathematician (1752–1833)
- 1848Caroline Herschel — German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
- 1873Napoleon III — President of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last monarch of France (1808–1873)
- 1876Samuel Gridley Howe — American physician and abolitionist (1801–1876)
- 1878Victor Emmanuel II of Italy — King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)
- 1908Wilhelm Busch — German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)
- 1908Abraham Goldfaden — Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (1840–1908)
- 1918Émile Reynaud — French inventor
- 1923Katherine Mansfield — New Zealand author (1888–1923)
- 1927Houston Stewart Chamberlain — British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
- 1936John Gilbert — American actor and film director (1899–1936)
- 1939Johann Strauss III — Austrian composer (1866–1939)
- 1941Dimitrios Golemis — Greek poet and athletics competitor (1874-1941)
- 1942Heber Doust Curtis — American astronomer (1872-1942)
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