November 9

Events
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.
Births
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 - 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 - Dominguin, 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 Kertesz, 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 - Bjorn 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 - Belen 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 - Raphael 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 Soumare, 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
Deaths
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 Muller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
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)
November 09