November 9

### Up to 1900

- 1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
- 1456 – Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present–day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
- 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1494 – Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
- 1520 – Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
- 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present–day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.
- 1729 – Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.
- 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
- 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
- 1802 – From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.
- 1861 – The first–documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
- 1867 – The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1880 – A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present–day Croatia. The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.
- 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
- 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his 66th birthday.
- 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.
- 1914 – World War I: The SMS _Emden_ is sunk by the HMAS _Sydney_ in the Battle of Cocos.
- 1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.
- 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
- 1918 – Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister–President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
- 1923 – In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
- 1936 – Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.
- 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large–scale act of physical anti–Jewish violence, begins.
- 1944 – Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia, dies. As of 2013, he is the father of all the Saudi Kings that have reigned since his death.
- 1960 – Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
- 1963 – At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 1965 – In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.
- 1965 – A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
- 1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
- 1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
- 1989 – Communist–controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
- 1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
- 1994 – Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
- 1997 – BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.
- 2000 – The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.

### From 2001

- 2004 – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
- 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2005 – A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.
- 2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens'  telecommunications traffic data for six months.
- 2012 – Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 2012 – David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.
- 2014 – Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.
- 2016 – A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.
- 2019 – A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.

### Up to 1900

- 955 – Gyeongjong of Korea (d. 981)
- 1389 – Isabella of Valois, Queen–consort of England (d. 1409)
- 1414 – Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
- 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
- 1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
- 1664 – Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
- 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
- 1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
- 1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
- 1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
- 1723 – Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Prussian royal and composer (d. 1787)
- 1731 – Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer (d. 1806)
- 1787 – Johann Natterer, Austrian explorer and naturalist (d. 1843)
- 1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
- 1801 – Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor (d. 1874)
- 1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
- 1810 – Thomas Bragg, American politician (d. 1872)
- 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- 1825 – A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
- 1829 – Peter Lumsden, British general (d. 1918)
- 1832 – Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
- 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
- 1841 – Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
- 1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
- 1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
- 1855 – Alexandros Zaimis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
- 1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
- 1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian–American actress (d. 1934)
- 1871 – Florence Sabin, American anatomist (d. 1953)
- 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
- 1873 – Fritz Thyssen, German businessman (d. 1951)
- 1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
- 1876 – Ahn Changho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
- 1877 – Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959)
- 1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
- 1878 – An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
- 1880 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
- 1882 – Roy E. Ayers, 11th Governor of Montana (d. 1955)
- 1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1883 – Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
- 1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
- 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
- 1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1888 – Jean Monnet, French businessman and statesman (d. 1979)
- 1892 – Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
- 1894 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (d. 1978)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1902 – Anthony Asquith, British movie director (d. 1968)
- 1903 – Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist (d. 1999)
- 1904 – Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal (d. 1945)
- 1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
- 1907 – Ko Takamoro, Japanese footballer (d. 1995)
- 1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
- 1918 – Choi Hong Hi, co–founder of Taekwondo (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)
- 1918 – Thomas Ferebee, American Enola Gay bombardier (d. 2000)
- 1919 – Roger Brocksom, English engineer and soldier (d. 2001)
- 1919 – Eva Todor, Hungarian–Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
- 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin and white supremacist (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
- 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
- 1922 – Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Archbishop of Lima (d. 2000)
- 1923 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014)
- 1923 – James Schuyler, American poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
- 1924 – Joy Page, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
- 1925 – Alistair Horne, English journalist, biographer and historian (d. 2017)
- 1925 – Helmut Rohde, German politician (d. 2016)
- 1926 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
- 1926 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
- 1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Russian composer
- 1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
- 1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Ronald Harwood, British movie producer and actor
- 1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player
- 1936 – Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
- 1936 – Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science populariser (d. 2019)
- 1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
- 1936 – Mary Travers, American singer (d. 2009)
- 1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
- 1937 – Clyde Wells, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
- 1939 – Björn Engholm, German politician
- 1941 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
- 1944 – Herbert Wimmer, German footballer
- 1944 – Phil May, English singer
- 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
- 1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
- 1948 – Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
- 1948 – Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer and screenwriter
- 1948 – Jane Humphries, English economist, historian and academic

### 1951 – 1975

- 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
- 1952 – Jack W. Szostak, British–American molecular biologist
- 1952 – Sherrod Brown, American politician and United States Senator from Ohio
- 1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician
- 1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
- 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian movie director
- 1956 – Lei Clijsters, Belgian footballer (d. 2009)
- 1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
- 1959 – Frances O'Grady, British union leader
- 1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German operatic baritone
- 1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
- 1961 – Jill Dando, English television presenter (d. 1999)
- 1961 – Jackie Kay, Scottish poet
- 1962 – Sergio Batista, Argentine footballer
- 1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh operatic baritone
- 1965 – Daphne Guinness, English–Irish model and actress
- 1967 – Yoshiro Moriyama, Japanese footballer
- 1969 – Pepa, American rapper
- 1970 – Scarface, American rapper
- 1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
- 1970 – Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor, radio presenter and rock musician
- 1971 – Sabri Lamouchi, French football coach and manager
- 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
- 1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
- 1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer
- 1973 – Belén Esteban, Spanish journalist and television presenter
- 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
- 1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
- 1975 – Gareth Malone, English choirmaster and broadcaster
- 1975 – Maria Ribeiro, Brazilian actress
- 1975 – Raphaël Enthoven, French philosophy teacher, radio host and television host

### From 1976

- 1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
- 1978 – Olga Brusnikina, Russian synchronized swimmer
- 1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
- 1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
- 1979 – Caroline Flack, English television presenter
- 1980 – James Harper, English footballer
- 1980 – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
- 1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Filipina television host and actress
- 1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
- 1981 – Termanology, American rapper
- 1982 – Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
- 1982 – Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
- 1983 – Gabriel Tamas, Romanian footballer
- 1984 – French Montana, Moroccan–American singer and rapper
- 1985 – Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
- 1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
- 1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1986 – Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer
- 1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
- 1988 – Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
- 1988 – Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian model and singer
- 1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and male model
- 1990 – Frankie Jones, Welsh rhythmic gymnast
- 1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
- 1993 – Pete Dunne, English wrestler
- 1996 – Momo Hirai, Japanese singer
- 1999 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress, singer and YouTuber

### Up to 1900

- 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
- 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
- 1208 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
- 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
- 1516 – Ferdinand of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1581 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
- 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
- 1699 – Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress to Charles II (b. 1646)
- 1766 – Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
- 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
- 1848 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (b. 1807)
- 1856 – John M. Clayton, United States Secretary of State (b. 1796)
- 1875 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (b. 1786)
- 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)

### 1901 – 2000

- 1911 – Howard Pyle, American illustrator and writer (b. 1853)
- 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
- 1918 – Peter Lumsden, British general (b. 1829)
- 1919 – Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
- 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
- 1935 – Santadasji Kathia Baba, Hindu Philosopher (b. 1859)
- 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
- 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
- 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
- 1952 – Philip Murray, American labor leader (b. 1886)
- 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (b. 1914)
- 1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
- 1953 – Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
- 1956 – Aino Kallas, Finnish author (b. 1878)
- 1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian Saint (b. 1858)
- 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Toyen, Czech Surrealist painter (b. 1902)
- 1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
- 1988 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
- 1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
- 1996 – Joe Ghiz, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
- 1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (b. 1905)
- 1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
- 1999 – Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
- 2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1916)

### From 2001

- 2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
- 2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
- 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
- 2006 – Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Executions for the Bali bombings:
    - Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
    - Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
    - Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian–born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
- 2012 – Bill Tarmey, British actor (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Joseph D. Early, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
- 2014 – M. V. Raghavan, Indian politician (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor (b. 1954)
- 2014 – Joe Walsh, Irish politician (b. 1943)
- 2015 – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
- 2015 – Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
- 2017 – Grete Berget, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
- 2017 – Fred Cole, American singer–songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
- 2017 – John Hillerman, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Chuck Mosley, American singer–songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
- 2017 – Priyan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1964)
- 2017 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
- 2017 – Gene Kotlarek, American ski jumper (b. 1940)
- 2017 – Chuck Nergard, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2018 – Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (b. 1925)
- 2018 – Roger Hoy, English footballer (b. 1946)
- 2019 – John Gokongwei, Filipino businessman and philanthropist (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Noel Ignatiev, American author and historian (b. 1940)
- 2019 – Brian Mawhinney, British politician (b. 1940)

## Observances and Significance

- Independence Day in Cambodia
- Schicksalstag in Germany, remembering several historic events in Germany that occurred on November 9
- Inventor's Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)