The 343rd day of the year, the 344th in a leap year
Born on 9 December
Every 9 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
- Birth flower
- Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 9 December in any year.
Which weekday 9 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 December falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 9 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,762 babies were born on 9 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 333rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 9 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John Milton | 1608–1674 | English poet and civil servant |
| Peter Kropotkin | 1842–1921 | Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher |
| Kirk Douglas | 1916–2020 | American actor |
| Jean-Claude Juncker | 1954– | Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019 |
| Judi Dench | 1934– | English actress |
| Fritz Haber | 1868–1934 | German chemist |
| Sonia Gandhi | 1946– | Indian politician |
| Grace Hopper | 1906–1992 | American computer scientist and United States Navy officer |
| Gustavus Adolphus | 1594–1632 | King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632; born 9 December in the Julian calendar, which is 19 December in the Gregorian |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele | 1742–1786 | Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen |
| Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | 1920–2016 | President of Italy from 1999 to 2006 |
| John Malkovich | 1953– | American actor |
| Dolores Ibárruri | 1895–1989 | Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician |
| James Rainwater | 1917–1986 | American physicist |
| Henry Way Kendall | 1926–1999 | American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Johann Joachim Winckelmann | 1717–1768 | German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library |
| Felicity Huffman | 1962– | American actress |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 1987– | American chess player |
Died on 9 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pope Pius IV | 1499–1565 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565 |
| Anthony van Dyck | 1599–1641 | Flemish Baroque artist |
| Gustaf Dalén | 1869–1937 | Swedish engineer and inventor |
| Pope Clement IX | 1600–1669 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1667 to 1669 |
| Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor | 1368–1437 | Monarch from the House of Luxemburg |
| Natsume Sōseki | 1867–1916 | Japanese novelist |
| Ralph Bunche | 1904–1971 | American political scientist and diplomat |
| Mary Leakey | 1913–1996 | British paleoanthropologist |
| Eleanor Parker | 1922–2013 | American actress |
| Alain Poher | 1909–1996 | French politician |
| Peter II of Portugal | 1648–1706 | King of Portugal |
| Dmitry Merezhkovsky | 1865–1941 | Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic |
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