November 9

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1282 &ndash; Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
* 1313 &ndash; Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
* 1456 &ndash; Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present–day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
* 1492 &ndash; Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
* 1494 &ndash; Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
* 1520 &ndash; Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
* 1620 &ndash; Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present–day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
* 1688 &ndash; Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.
* 1729 &ndash; Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
* 1780 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.
* 1791 &ndash; Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
* 1799 &ndash; Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
* 1802 &ndash; From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.
* 1861 &ndash; The first–documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
* 1867 &ndash; The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
* 1872 &ndash; The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1880 &ndash; A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present–day Croatia. The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.
* 1887 &ndash; The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
* 1888 &ndash; Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1906 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Cullinan Diamond is presented to Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his 66th birthday.
* 1913 &ndash; The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.
* 1914 &ndash; World War I: The SMS *Emden* is sunk by the HMAS *Sydney* in the Battle of Cocos.
* 1917 &ndash; Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.
* 1918 &ndash; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
* 1918 &ndash; Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister–President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
* 1923 &ndash; In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
* 1936 &ndash; Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.
* 1937 &ndash; Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
* 1938 &ndash; Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large–scale act of physical anti–Jewish violence, begins.
* 1944 &ndash; Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* 1953 &ndash; Cambodia becomes independent from France.
* 1953 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
* 1963 &ndash; At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
* 1965 &ndash; In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.
* 1965 &ndash; A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
* 1967 &ndash; NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
* 1967 &ndash; The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
* 1985 &ndash; Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
* 1989 &ndash; Communist–controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
* 1993 &ndash; The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
* 1994 &ndash; Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
* 1997 &ndash; BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.
* 2000 &ndash; The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.

### From 2001 
* 2004 &ndash; Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
* 2005 &ndash; The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
* 2005 &ndash; A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.
* 2007 &ndash; The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens'  telecommunications traffic data for six months.
* 2012 &ndash; Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 2012 &ndash; David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.
* 2014 &ndash; Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.
* 2016 &ndash; A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.
* 2019 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Gyeongjong of Korea (d. 981)
* 1389 &ndash; Isabella of Valois, Queen–consort of England (d. 1409)
* 1414 &ndash; Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
* 1522 &ndash; Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
* 1606 &ndash; Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
* 1664 &ndash; Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
* 1664 &ndash; Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
* 1697 &ndash; Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
* 1719 &ndash; Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
* 1721 &ndash; Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
* 1723 &ndash; Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Prussian royal and composer (d. 1787)
* 1731 &ndash; Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer (d. 1806)
* 1787 &ndash; Johann Natterer, Austrian explorer and naturalist (d. 1843)
* 1799 &ndash; Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
* 1801 &ndash; Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor (d. 1874)
* 1802 &ndash; Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
* 1810 &ndash; Thomas Bragg, American politician (d. 1872)
* 1818 &ndash; Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
* 1825 &ndash; A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
* 1829 &ndash; Peter Lumsden, British general (d. 1918)
* 1832 &ndash; Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
* 1840 &ndash; Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
* 1841 &ndash; Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
* 1850 &ndash; Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
* 1853 &ndash; Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
* 1855 &ndash; Alexandros Zaimis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
* 1862 &ndash; Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
* 1869 &ndash; Marie Dressler, Canadian–American actress (d. 1934)
* 1871 &ndash; Florence Sabin, American anatomist (d. 1953)
* 1872 &ndash; Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
* 1873 &ndash; Fritz Thyssen, German businessman (d. 1951)
* 1874 &ndash; Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
* 1876 &ndash; Ahn Changho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
* 1877 &ndash; Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959)
* 1877 &ndash; Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
* 1878 &ndash; An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
* 1880 &ndash; Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
* 1882 &ndash; Roy E. Ayers, 11th Governor of Montana (d. 1955)
* 1883 &ndash; Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
* 1883 &ndash; Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
* 1885 &ndash; Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
* 1885 &ndash; Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
* 1886 &ndash; Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
* 1888 &ndash; Jean Monnet, French businessman and statesman (d. 1979)
* 1892 &ndash; Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
* 1894 &ndash; Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1897 &ndash; Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (d. 1978)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Anthony Asquith, British movie director (d. 1968)
* 1903 &ndash; Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist (d. 1999)
* 1904 &ndash; Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal (d. 1945)
* 1905 &ndash; Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
* 1907 &ndash; Ko Takamoro, Japanese footballer (d. 1995)
* 1914 &ndash; Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
* 1915 &ndash; Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
* 1918 &ndash; Choi Hong Hi, co–founder of Taekwondo (d. 2002)
* 1918 &ndash; Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)
* 1918 &ndash; Thomas Ferebee, American Enola Gay bombardier (d. 2000)
* 1919 &ndash; Roger Brocksom, English engineer and soldier (d. 2001)
* 1919 &ndash; Eva Todor, Hungarian–Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
* 1920 &ndash; Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin and white supremacist (d. 2001)
* 1921 &ndash; Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
* 1922 &ndash; Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
* 1922 &ndash; Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Archbishop of Lima (d. 2000)
* 1923 &ndash; Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; James Schuyler, American poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
* 1924 &ndash; Joy Page, American actress (d. 2008)
* 1925 &ndash; Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
* 1925 &ndash; Alistair Horne, English journalist, biographer and historian (d. 2017)
* 1925 &ndash; Helmut Rohde, German politician (d. 2016)
* 1926 &ndash; Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
* 1926 &ndash; Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (d. 2015)
* 1927 &ndash; Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (d. 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
* 1929 &ndash; Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
* 1929 &ndash; Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Russian composer
* 1931 &ndash; Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
* 1934 &ndash; Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
* 1934 &ndash; Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
* 1934 &ndash; Ronald Harwood, British movie producer and actor
* 1935 &ndash; Bob Gibson, American baseball player
* 1936 &ndash; Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
* 1936 &ndash; Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science populariser (d. 2019)
* 1936 &ndash; Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
* 1936 &ndash; Mary Travers, American singer (d. 2009)
* 1937 &ndash; Roger McGough, English poet
* 1937 &ndash; Clyde Wells, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
* 1939 &ndash; Björn Engholm, German politician
* 1941 &ndash; Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
* 1942 &ndash; Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
* 1944 &ndash; Herbert Wimmer, German footballer
* 1944 &ndash; Phil May, English singer
* 1947 &ndash; Robert David Hall, American actor
* 1948 &ndash; Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
* 1948 &ndash; Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
* 1948 &ndash; Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer and screenwriter
* 1948 &ndash; Jane Humphries, English economist, historian and academic

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

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Olga Brusnikina, Russian synchronized swimmer
* 1979 &ndash; Adam Dunn, American baseball player
* 1979 &ndash; Martin Taylor, English footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Caroline Flack, English television presenter
* 1980 &ndash; James Harper, English footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
* 1980 &ndash; Vanessa Minnillo, Filipina television host and actress
* 1981 &ndash; Scottie Thompson, American actress
* 1981 &ndash; Termanology, American rapper
* 1982 &ndash; Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
* 1982 &ndash; Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Gabriel Tamas, Romanian footballer
* 1984 &ndash; French Montana, Moroccan–American singer and rapper
* 1985 &ndash; Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
* 1985 &ndash; Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1986 &ndash; Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Nikki Blonsky, American actress
* 1988 &ndash; Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
* 1988 &ndash; Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian model and singer
* 1989 &ndash; Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and male model
* 1990 &ndash; Frankie Jones, Welsh rhythmic gymnast 
* 1990 &ndash; Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Pete Dunne, English wrestler
* 1996 &ndash; Momo Hirai, Japanese singer
* 1999 &ndash; Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress, singer and YouTuber

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 959 &ndash; Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
* 1187 &ndash; Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
* 1208 &ndash; Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
* 1456 &ndash; Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
* 1516 &ndash; Ferdinand of Aragon (b. 1452)
* 1581 &ndash; Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
* 1641 &ndash; Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
* 1699 &ndash; Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress to Charles II (b. 1646)
* 1766 &ndash; Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
* 1778 &ndash; Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
* 1848 &ndash; Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (b. 1807)
* 1856 &ndash; John M. Clayton, United States Secretary of State (b. 1796)
* 1875 &ndash; William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (b. 1786)
* 1888 &ndash; Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1911 &ndash; Howard Pyle, American illustrator and writer (b. 1853)
* 1918 &ndash; Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
* 1918 &ndash; Peter Lumsden, British general (b. 1829)
* 1919 &ndash; Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
* 1924 &ndash; Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
* 1935 &ndash; Santadasji Kathia Baba, Hindu Philosopher (b. 1859)
* 1937 &ndash; Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
* 1940 &ndash; Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
* 1942 &ndash; Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
* 1944 &ndash; Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
* 1952 &ndash; Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
* 1952 &ndash; Philip Murray, American labor leader (b. 1886)
* 1953 &ndash; Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (b. 1914)
* 1953 &ndash; Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
* 1953 &ndash; Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
* 1956 &ndash; Aino Kallas, Finnish author (b. 1878)
* 1962 &ndash; Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian Saint (b. 1858)
* 1970 &ndash; Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
* 1980 &ndash; Toyen, Czech Surrealist painter (b. 1902)
* 1988 &ndash; David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
* 1988 &ndash; John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
* 1991 &ndash; Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
* 1992 &ndash; Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
* 1996 &ndash; Joe Ghiz, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
* 1997 &ndash; Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (b. 1905)
* 1997 &ndash; Helenio Herrera, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1910)
* 1998 &ndash; Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
* 1999 &ndash; Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
* 2000 &ndash; Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1916)

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