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 – 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

 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 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)

November 09