Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 9
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 9 include John Milton (1608), Kirk Douglas (1916), Jean-Claude Juncker (1954) and Judi Dench (1934). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1608 (John Milton) and the most recent is 2005 (Divya Deshmukh). The most common fields on this date: actor, politician, football.
Who was born on December 9?
- John Milton 1608 English poet and civil servant
- Kirk Douglas 1916 American actor
- Jean-Claude Juncker 1954 Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission
- Judi Dench 1934 English actress
- Fritz Haber 1868 German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
- Sonia Gandhi 1946 Indian politician
- Grace Hopper 1906 American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi 1920 President of Italy from 1999 to 2006
- John Malkovich 1953 American actor
- Dolores Ibárruri 1895 Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician
- Henry Way Kendall 1926 American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
- James Rainwater 1917 American physicist
- Felicity Huffman 1962 American actress
- Hikaru Nakamura 1987 American chess player
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717 German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library
- William Lipscomb 1919 Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist
- Bixente Lizarazu 1969 French footballer
- Bob Hawke 1929 Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
- Broderick Crawford 1911 American actor
- John Cassavetes 1929 Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter
- Simon Helberg 1980 American actor and comedian
- Empress Masako 1963 Empress consort of Japan
- Claude Louis Berthollet 1748 French chemist
- Dia Mirza 1981 Indian model and actress
- Kirsten Gillibrand 1966 American politician
- Dalton Trumbo 1905 American screenwriter
- Tré Cool 1972 American drummer
- Ödön von Horváth 1901 Austro-Hungarian writer
- Djalminha 1970 Brazilian association football player
- Kwadwo Asamoah 1988 Ghanaian footballer
- Kurt Angle 1968 American professional wrestler and 1996 Olympic gold medalist
- Anna Gavalda 1970 French author
- Maria Luisa of Parma 1751 Queen consort of Spain
- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar 1908 Somali politician
- Beau Bridges 1941 American actor
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain 1880 Bengali feminist writer and social reformer
- Ernest Gellner 1925 Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1915 German opera soprano
- Stacey Abrams 1973 American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author
- Emma Thomas 1971 British film producer
- Ádám Szalai 1987 Hungarian association football player
- Zurab Zhvania 1963 Prime Minister of Georgia
- Mardy Fish 1981 American tennis player
- Joseph Needham 1900 British biochemist, historian and sinologist
- Michael Dorn 1952 American actor
- Gastón Gaudio 1978 Argentine tennis player
- Jesse Metcalfe 1978 American actor
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1909 American actor and United States naval officer
- Hannes Kolehmainen 1889 Finnish long-distance runner
- Paul Landers 1964 German guitarist
- Dino Morea 1975 Indian actor, model, film producer
- McKayla Maroney 1995 American artistic gymnast
- Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans 1709 Queen consort of Spain
- Billy Bremner 1942 Scottish association football player and manager
- Choi Min-ho 1991 South Korean rapper, singer and actor
- Margaret Hamilton 1902 American film character actress
- Lancelot Hogben 1895 British zoologist, statistician, science writer
- Dariusz Dudka 1983 Polish footballer
- Jean-Pierre Thiollet 1956 French writer
- Alexandros Papagos 1883 Greek military leader and politician
- Harvey Barnes 1997 English association football player
- Donald Byrd 1932 American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
- Donny Osmond 1957 American singer, dancer, actor, television host
- Imogen Heap 1977 British musician
- Emmanuel Carrère 1957 French author and film director
- Divya Deshmukh 2005 Indian chess player
- Mary Fallin 1954 27th Governor of Oklahoma
- Joshua Bell 1967 American violinist
- Caroline Lucas 1960 British politician, Member of Parliament for the Green Party
- Alexander Bah 1997 Danish footballer
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan 1974 Pakistani sufi singer
- Raif Dizdarević 1926 Yugoslav politician
- Hu Han-min 1879 Chinese politician
- Émile Waldteufel 1837 French composer
- Fabrice Santoro 1972 French tennis player
- Joseph Dietzgen 1828 German philosopher
- Michael Müller 1964 German politician
- Shatrughan Sinha 1945 Indian actor and politician
- Gideon Sa'ar 1966 Israeli politician
- Francisco S. Carvajal 1870 President of Mexico
- Ryder Hesjedal 1980 Racing cyclist
- Buck Henry 1930 American actor
- Aron Baynes 1986 Australian basketball player
- Carlos Alberto Santos 1960 Brazilian association football player
- James Hogg 1770 British poet and novelist
- Vénuste Niyongabo 1973 Burundian athlete
- Víctor Aristizábal 1971 Colombian footballer
- Hermione Gingold 1897 English actress
- Gioconda Belli 1948 Nicaraguan writer
- Nikolai Luzin 1883 Russian mathematician
- Junior Wells 1934 American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist
- Tom Daschle 1947 American politician
- Redd Foxx 1922 American stand-up comedian and actor
- Joan Armatrading 1950 British singer and musician
- Georges Mandjeck 1988 Cameroonian and French footballer
- Veronika Vítková 1988 Czech biathlete
- Henk ten Cate 1954 Dutch association football player and manager
- Pierre Henry 1927 French composer
- Maurice de Hirsch 1831 German financier and philanthropist
- Auguste de Beauharnais 1810 Portuguese prince
- Joaquin Turina 1882 Spanish composer
- Maksym Koval 1992 Ukrainian footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 9 share the 9th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.