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What happend on 9. January in History
In our data base we found 366 events happened on 9. January:
• 475: Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. [category: Events]
• 1127: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty. [category: Events]
• 1150: Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a coup d'état. (b. 1119) [category: Deaths]
• 1282: Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204) [category: Deaths]
• 1283: Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236) [category: Deaths]
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• 1349: The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. [category: Events]
• 1431: Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. [category: Events]
• 1475: Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507) [category: Births]
• 1499: John Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455) [category: Deaths]
• 1514: Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477) [category: Deaths]
• 1543: Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) [category: Deaths]
• 1554: Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623) [category: Births]
• 1562: Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514) [category: Deaths]
• 1571: Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621) [category: Births]
• 1571: Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) [category: Deaths]
• 1589: Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (d. 1638) [category: Births]
• 1598: Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553) [category: Deaths]
• 1622: Empress Meishō of Japan (d. 1696) [category: Births]
• 1674: Reinhard Keiser, German opera composer (d. 1739) [category: Births]
• 1677: Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603) [category: Deaths]
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• 1685: Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766) [category: Births]
• 1728: Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1735: John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet [category: Births]
• 1745: Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819) [category: Births]
• 1753: Luísa Todi, Portuguese opera singer (d. 1833) [category: Births]
• 1757: Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657) [category: Deaths]
• 1757: Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688) [category: Deaths]
• 1760: Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. [category: Events]
• 1766: Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705) [category: Deaths]
• 1768: In London, England, Great Britain, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus. [category: Events]
• 1773: Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845) [category: Births]
• 1788: Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States. [category: Events]
• 1790: Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855) [category: Births]
• 1793: Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1799: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1800: Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1805: Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1806: Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. [category: Events]
• 1811: Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856) [category: Births]
• 1816: Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. [category: Events]
• 1818: Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1819: James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884) [category: Births]
• 1822: Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1822: The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. [category: Events]
• 1823: Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1829: Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1829: Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1832: Félix-Gabriel Marchand, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1839: John Knowles Paine, American composer (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. [category: Events]
• 1843: William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1848: Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1848: Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1854: Jennie Jerome, American socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1856: Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1856: Neophytus Vamvas, Greek cleric and educator (b. 1770) [category: Deaths]
• 1857: The Fort Tejon earthquake strikes California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9. [category: Events]
• 1858: Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798) [category: Deaths]
• 1858: Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. [category: Events]
• 1859: Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1861: American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War". [category: Events]
• 1861: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1863: American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas. [category: Events]
• 1864: Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1868: S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1870: Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1873: Harry Spanjer, American boxer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1873: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1873: John Flanagan, Irish born-American athlete (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1873: Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1875: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1876: Arthur Darby, British rugby player (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1876: Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1877: Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: Umberto I becomes King of Italy. [category: Events]
• 1879: John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1880: The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow. [category: Events]
• 1881: Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1881: Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1881: Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1886: Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1889: Vrindavan Lal Verma,Indian Hindi writer(d.1969) [category: Births]
• 1890: Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1890: Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1892: Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1895: Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1896: Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1897: Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1898: Gracie Fields, English music hall performer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1898: Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1898: Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1900: Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1900: Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939) [category: Births]
• 1901: Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1901: Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1902: Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1902: Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1903: Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1903: Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. [category: Events]
• 1908: Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1908: Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Anthony Mamo, Malta's 1st President (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1909: Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1909: J. R. Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1909: Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1909: Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time. [category: Events]
• 1910: Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Gypsy Rose Lee, American burlesque entertainer, dancer, actress, and author (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1911: Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1913: Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1914: Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1914: Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded. [category: Events]
• 1915: Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1915: Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1916: Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1916: Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1916: World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. [category: Events]
• 1917: World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. [category: Events]
• 1918: Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1918: Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. [category: Events]
• 1920: Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1920: Clive Dunn, British actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1920: Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1921: Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1921: Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. [category: Events]
• 1922: Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1922: Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel laureate (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1923: Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. [category: Events]
• 1923: Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. [category: Events]
• 1924: Sergei Parajanov, Soviet film director (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1925: Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1925: Len Quested, English footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1926: Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1927: Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. [category: Events]
• 1928: Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1928: Judith Krantz, American author [category: Births]
• 1929: Brian Friel, Irish dramatist [category: Births]
• 1929: Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1929: Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1929: Tom Riley, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1931: Algis Budrys, American author (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1931: Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Robert Garcia, American politician [category: Births]
• 1933: Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist [category: Births]
• 1934: Bart Starr, American football player [category: Births]
• 1934: Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1935: Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1935: Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator [category: Births]
• 1935: Dick Enberg, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1935: Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher [category: Births]
• 1936: Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer [category: Births]
• 1936: Marko Veselica, Croatian politician [category: Births]
• 1936: John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Peter Edelman, American law professor [category: Births]
• 1938: Stuart Woods, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1938: Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1939: Rik Kemp, Australian cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1939: Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1939: Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1940: Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1940: Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Gilles Vaillancourt, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Joan Baez, American singer and activist [category: Births]
• 1941: Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. [category: Events]
• 1941: World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. [category: Events]
• 1942: John Dunning, American writer [category: Births]
• 1942: Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist [category: Births]
• 1942: K Callan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1942: Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist [category: Births]
• 1943: Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1943: Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer [category: Births]
• 1943: Jerry Yester, American musician [category: Births]
• 1943: Robert Drewe, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1943: Scott Walker, American singer [category: Births]
• 1944: Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1944: Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin) [category: Births]
• 1945: John Doman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese career officer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. [category: Events]
• 1946: Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politican [category: Births]
• 1946: Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Ronnie Landfield, American artist [category: Births]
• 1947: Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive. [category: Events]
• 1948: Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1948: Cassie Gaines, American singer (The Honkettes) (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1950: David Johansen, American singer [category: Births]
• 1950: Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1951: Crystal Gayle, American singer [category: Births]
• 1951: M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1952: Hugh Bayley, British politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Michael Capuano, American politician, United States Congressman from Massachusetts [category: Births]
• 1953: Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1953: Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author [category: Births]
• 1954: Philippa Gregory, English historical novelist [category: Births]
• 1955: J. K. Simmons, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic [category: Births]
• 1956: Imelda Staunton, British actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Kimberly Beck, American actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer at Madison Square Garden [category: Births]
• 1957: Bibie, Ghanaian singer [category: Births]
• 1957: Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns) [category: Births]
• 1957: Yury Bandazhevsky, Belarusian scientist imprisoned for work on the Chernobyl disaster [category: Births]
• 1958: Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II [category: Births]
• 1958: Stephen Neale, British philosopher [category: Births]
• 1958: Dick Grant, Canadian athlete (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician [category: Births]
• 1959: Mark Martin, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1959: Otis Nixon, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1960: Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. [category: Events]
• 1961: Al Jean, American television writer [category: Births]
• 1961: Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1961: Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode [category: Births]
• 1964: Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. [category: Events]
• 1965: Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player [category: Births]
• 1965: Eric Erlandson, American musician (Hole and RRIICCEE) [category: Births]
• 1965: Farah Khan, Indian film director and choreographer [category: Births]
• 1965: Haddaway, Trinidadian singer [category: Births]
• 1965: Iain Dowie, English football manager [category: Births]
• 1965: Joely Richardson, British actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1965: The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). [category: Events]
• 1966: Candi Milo, American voice actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Jan Johansen, Swedish singer [category: Births]
• 1967: Carl Bell, American musician (Fuel) [category: Births]
• 1967: Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician (Dave Matthews Band) [category: Births]
• 1967: Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player [category: Births]
• 1967: Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth) [category: Births]
• 1968: Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.) [category: Births]
• 1968: Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1968: Joey Lauren Adams, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire) [category: Births]
• 1970: Lara Fabian, Belgian singer [category: Births]
• 1970: Mia X, American rapper [category: Births]
• 1971: Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host [category: Births]
• 1971: Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist (Danger Doom and Madvillain) [category: Births]
• 1971: Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author [category: Births]
• 1971: Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1971: Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director [category: Births]
• 1971: Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Jay Powell, baseball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Mat Hoffman, professional BMX rider [category: Births]
• 1972: Sarah Beeny, British TV personality [category: Births]
• 1972: Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Angela Bettis, American actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer. [category: Births]
• 1975: Julia Lutrova, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1975: Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Simon Gosejohann, German comedian [category: Births]
• 1976: Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer [category: Births]
• 1977: Beth Troutman, American production assistant [category: Births]
• 1978: AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys) [category: Births]
• 1978: Chad Ochocinco, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist [category: Births]
• 1978: Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1979: Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Tomiko Van, Japanese singer (Do As Infinity) [category: Births]
• 1979: Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Edgar Álvarez, Honduran footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Sandip Gupta, Joda India [category: Births]
• 1980: Sergio García, Spanish golfer [category: Births]
• 1981: Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [category: Births]
• 1982: Grétar Steinsson, Icelandic footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Timmy Bowers, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Sharad Malhotra, Indian television actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Benjamin Danso, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1984: Drew Brown, American guitarist (OneRepublic and Debate Team) [category: Births]
• 1984: Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Juanfran, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jéferson, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Mao Inoue, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1987: Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1987: Sam Bird, English racing driver [category: Births]
• 1987: Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Chris Sandow, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1989: Michael Beasley, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1989: Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player [category: Births]
• 1989: Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Justin Blackmon, American football player [category: Births]
• 1990: Melissa Ricks, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Oteng Oteng, Batswana boxer [category: Births]
• 1990: Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. [category: Events]
• 1992: Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. [category: Events]
• 1993: Ashley Argota, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Nicola Peltz, American actress [category: Births]
• 1995: Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Walter M. Miller, Jr., American author (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. [category: Events]
• 1997: Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Arnold Alexander Hall, British aeronautical engineer, scientist, and industrialist (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. [category: Events]
• 2005: Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh. [category: Events]
• 2005: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement] to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. [category: Events]
• 2006: Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone. [category: Events]
• 2008: Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: René Herms, German athlete (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Makinti Napanangka, Indigenous Australian artist (b.c. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Alex DeCroce, American Republican Party Politician (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau (b.1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• _: Adrian of Canterbury [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cassandra Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feast of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo District, Manila, Philippines) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: First Agonalia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Martyrs' Day (Panama) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Republic Day (Republika Srpska) [category: Holidays and observances]