The Birthday Gazette

Born on November 9

November 9 birthdays & history

If you were born on November 9, you share a birthday with Ivan Turgenev, Carl Sagan and Muhammad Iqbal. November 9 babies are Scorpio, with topaz as their birthstone and the chrysanthemum as their birth flower. November 9 is the 314th day of the year in leap years (313th in other years).

Famous people born on November 9

  • 1818Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright
  • 1934Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
  • 1877Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician
  • 1929Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1914Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor
  • 1974Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
  • 1936Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author
  • 1885Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
  • 1948Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian footballer and manager
  • 1960Andreas Brehme, German footballer and manager

What happened on November 9

  • 1901Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom), becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
  • 1905The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election.
  • 1906Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • 1907The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • 1917The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.
  • 1918The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag, which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
  • 1926Paul Hindemith's opera Cardillac premiered at the Dresden State Opera, conducted by Fritz Busch.
  • 1928The Great Mecca Feast, the first documentary film on the Hajj, premiered in the Netherlands.
  • 1935The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
  • 1967The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
  • 2019The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century".
  • 2019Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border.

Also observed on November 9

  • Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
  • Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
  • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
  • Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
  • Uttarakhand Day (Uttarakhand, India)
  • World Freedom Day (United States)

Questions, answered

What star sign is November 9?

People born on November 9 are Scorpio. Their birthstone is topaz and their birth flower is the chrysanthemum.

Which famous people were born on November 9?

Ivan Turgenev (1818), Carl Sagan (1934), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Imre Kertész (1929), Hedy Lamarr (1914), Alessandro Del Piero (1974) were all born on November 9.

What happened on November 9 in history?

Among other things: in 1967, The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published; in 2019, The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century"; in 2019, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border.

Can I get a newspaper front page from November 9?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any November 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, “November 9”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.