Born on January 9
January 9 birthdays & history
If you were born on January 9, you share a birthday with Richard Nixon, Simone de Beauvoir and Karel Čapek. January 9 babies are Capricorn, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 9 is the 9th day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on January 9
- 1913Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States
- 1908Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author
- 1890Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright
- 1941Joan Baez, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist
- 1554Pope Gregory XV, Head of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623
- 1989Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
- 1944Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1922Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate
- 1879John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic
- 2006Sarah Toscano, Italian singer-songwriter and actress
What happened on January 9
- 1816Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1822The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
- 1839The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 1878Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- 1903Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- 1909Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1914The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
- 1923Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 1939The Kingdom of Italy would officially the coastal areas of its Colony of Libya as an integral part of the country itself, becoming the nation's Fourth Shore.
- 1960President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
- 1972The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest in major American professional team sports.
- 1992Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two pulsar planets orbiting PSR B1257+12 (depicted), the first confirmed detection of exoplanets.
Also observed on January 9
- Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)
- Non-Resident Indian Day (India)
Questions, answered
What star sign is January 9?
People born on January 9 are Capricorn. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.
Which famous people were born on January 9?
Richard Nixon (1913), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Karel Čapek (1890), Joan Baez (1941), Pope Gregory XV (1554), Nina Dobrev (1989) were all born on January 9.
What happened on January 9 in history?
Among other things: in 1960, President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile; in 1972, The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest in major American professional team sports; in 1992, Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two pulsar planets orbiting PSR B1257+12 (depicted), the first confirmed detection of exoplanets.
Can I get a newspaper front page from January 9?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 9 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 9”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.